[mdt] Computer Type during Wizard

[Manny-Tech]

Hi

 

I'm looking for a way to differentiate between admin, curriculum, teacher and staff laptop devices during the MDT wizard. In a previous company we had an additional screen during the setup wizard with radio buttons with all the different machine types, depending on which one you selected it wrote a key to the registry. From there you could target software based on what that key value was. I'm not sure how they achieved that other than editing the wizard.hta.

 

Does anyone have a similar setup or an alternative way to achieve the goal of only getting software to a particular device type?

[sted]

pre stage the pc accounts so when you name it it goes to an account in the correct ou. Beyond that you can do stuff with an sql database so pc with mac address x gets x/y/z but i trid it and tbh it was more hassle than it was worth imo

 

on the screen where you select the task sequence you could just create hp 6000 admin/hp 500 pupil etc

 

you could in the applications section just add scripts that install all admin software/all curric software etc

 

depends what you want to achieve personally id just add the pc to the right ou by prestaging it and let ad install software for you

Edited March 6, 2020 by sted

[DaveTheTech]

Here we bundle applications together.

We have Maths, Classics, Teacher, Maths and A computer lab option - Is this what you are after?

 

You could add another screen that has dropdowns to select a variable. But the above would be a much simpler option, and give the same outcome.

[Manny-Tech]

Essentially we have software that only needs to go on pupil computers and some only for staff computers. I had looked at creating different software bundles but it still relies on user intervention when going through the deployment wizard. If there was a mandatory page that could be used it would avoid any messing about after deployment.

[foofighterjim]

Why not create a template specifically for those machines and add the bundle you created to the template? That's what we do, we have a total of 4 templates - Student Computers, Wireless Devices, Office Computers & IWB Computers. Only differences are the software bundles they apply (and wireless settings for the wireless devices).

[strawberry]

Either bundle the applications as a collection or use a query to apply packages based on naming convention.

 

Hang on, what do you mean applications after deployment? MDT should install the software. Not sure why a reg key was ever needed TBH.

Edited March 6, 2020 by strawberry