MDT2008 Autorun

[DMc2007]

Hi

How can I get MDT2008 to run through the inital screens without user input.
Like selecting keyboard, deployment share, username. Also I do not want to
have to select Applications that are required to be installed and have MDT
work through the list that I have supplied in the Rolls option of the
Deploy\Database\Roles of MDT.

Regards

D

[Dave Guenthner [MSFT]]

There are two files which drive that automation. In the PE phase
bootstrap.ini is used to make a connection to the deployment point.
Once the connection to deployment point is made, customsettings.ini is
parsed for the bulk of instructions. The help file has good documentation
for this:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Bin\Microsoft Deployment
Toolkit 2008 Help.chm
"Fully Automated LTI Deployment Scenario" - this shows all the wizards for
a deployment
"Fully Automated LTI Deployment for New Computer Scenario" - provides an
example of what customsettings.ini should look like.

Essentially you want to say 'Yes' to skip a wizard followed by the answer
in the ini file with you would ordinarily input into wizard screens. If
you use a database, you can specify much
of this via workbench console.

Dave Guenthner [MSFT]
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