MDT 2010 Setup Step by Step Part 6

Rule Settings in MDT 2010

MDT 2010 as you have seen is very customizable and you can stop some screens showing with the rules available in MDT this will cut down on the amount of input required during the operating system install. Theses inbuilt rules are quite limited so below you will find many more that you can add.

To access the rules from the deployment workbench Right click your deployment share and choose properties the second tab (Rules) will show you the limited built in rules.

The list of rules below when applied will only show 3 screens during the install process Computer Name

Task Sequence Selection

Time Zone Selection

[Settings]

Priority=Default

Properties=MyCustomProperty

[Default]

OSInstall=YES

SkipAdminPassword=YES

SkipApplications=YES

SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES

SkipBDDWelcome=YES

SkipBitLocker=YES

SkipCapture=YES

SkipComputerName=No

SkipComputerBackup=YES

SkipDeploymentType=YES

DeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER

SkipDomainMembership=YES

JoinDomain=Demo

DomainAdmin=administrator

DomainAdminDomain= Demo

DomainAdminPassword=*******

SkipFinalSummary=No

SkipLocaleSelection=YES

KeyboardLocale=en-GB

UserLocale=en-GB

UILanguage=en-GB

SkipPackageDisplay=YES

SkipProductKey=YES

SkipSummary=YES

SkipTaskSequence=NO

SkipTimeZone=YES

TimeZone=085

TimeZoneName=Greenwich Standard Time

SkipUserData=Yes

I hope this article helps with your OS deployments using MDT 2010 I will try to keep the blog updated on the latest MDT improvements.

Update

On 15^th July 2010 Microsoft released update 1 for MDT 2010 I have applied this update and the good news is all still works you can download from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en&tm

You can also find this series of post as a single pdf file see below.

MDT 2010 Setup Step by Step

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