MDT updated to 8443 - ignoring some customsettings.ini settings

[themightymrp]

Just this week I have finally got around to upgrading my MDT system to the latest build so that I can start digging into Windows 10 (time to bite the bullet).

 

Everything seemed to go fine but I ran into some problems come deploy time. Some I've sorted, but there's one that is really bugging me.

 

Every task sequence I run is now presenting the page asking about joining a domain or a workgroup, even though it should be skipping this as I've got all the settings in my CS.ini. I'm also getting the page asking if I want to capture the image for every task sequence, even though I have SkipCapture=YES and DoCapture=NO configured.

 

Any thoughts? I've tried removing those settings from my CustomSettings.ini file and putting them in as Task Sequence variables at the very beginning of my TS, but no joy. Exactly the same issue.

 

Side question - with the cumulative updates for Windows 10, is it best to replace the package in MDT with the full latest CU, or can I get away with adding the latest Delta update to the folder when they are released?

[gshaw]

What order does MDT process your rules in? Perhaps you have an override at Role, Machine, Location level that's being processed?

[themightymrp]

I have the priority set to Task Sequence ID, Default

 

I had to change that actually after the upgrade because it wasn't reading any of the CS.ini !! Originally I had Priority = Task Sequence and then under each TS section, the last line was Subsection=Default

 

That sounds like an odd way to do it (and it is) but when I was setting the system up it was the only way I could find of making it read all the rules.

 

Doing it as TS, Default fixed most of my issues. I will post the relevant sections here:

 

[settings]
Priority=TaskSequenceID, Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty

[Default]
OSInstall=Y
SkipProductKey=YES
SkipComputerBackup=YES
SkipBitLocker=YES
SkipUserData=YES
EventService=http://servername:9800
SLShare=\\servername\logs$
SkipDomainMembership=YES
SkipAdminPassword=YES
AdminPassword=redacted
_SMSTSOrgName=School Name
_SMSTSPackageName=Deploying %TaskSequenceID% to %OSDComputerName%

SkipLocaleSelection=YES
InputLocale=0809:00000809
UserLocale=0809:00000809
SkipTimeZone=YES
TimeZone=85
TimeZoneName=GMT Standard Time

WsusServer=http://servername:8530

BitsPerPel=32
VRefresh=60
XResolution=1
YResolution=1


[sTUDENT]
DoCapture=NO
SkipCapture=YES
JoinDomain=domain
DomainAdmin=admin username
DomainAdminDomain=domain
DomainAdminPassword=redacted
MachineObjectOU=OU=MDT New Builds,OU=School Computers,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk

Edited June 14, 2017 by themightymrp