MDT 2010 Setup Step by Step Part 6
Dave Coleman | July 19, 2010Rule 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 15th 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
You can also find this series of post as a single pdf file see below.
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