[wds] Question & advice deploying a specific image to a specific device

[carlx2]

Hi all

 

I was wondering if anyone can help me if i had about 100 workstations and needed to deploy certain images to certain machines how would i go about this using MDT.

Im trying to think of a way to use the MAC address as a unique identifier by running a script on a users machine that starts a lite touch deployment. however if i had multiple machines all with different images I only want the machine im on to deploy that image for that machine and not give a list of all available task sequences.

 

if that makes sense ???

[birchanger]

I retired some while ago and can't remember all the details (e.g. my syntax below may be wrong) but I could easily do this sort of thing at one time.

 

For most of our task sequences we used the MDT database, which is easy to set up and very, very powerful. Our main builds were based on make and model (to install the right drivers and so on), and also on assigned roles. So a machine might be designated a teacher's machine, a classroom PC, and in the maths faculty, so would receive the apps it needed such as maths courses, whiteboard apps and the 4-Matrix client.

Some builds, those used for exams, were closer to what you needed. They didn't use the DB and just used customsettings.ini to target the specific machine, setting the machine name, what apps it gets, whether spellchecking was disabled and so on. We didn't use the MAC address but the serial number; the process is identical. You'll need to have MACADDRESS in the Priority statement at the top of cs.ini and the mac addresses you're targetting as sections lower down (i.e. in square brackets). In the section under the macadress have SkipTS = True, to avoid the machine asking which TS is to be selected, and TSID=.

 

I'm sure someone will along in a minute with a more recent memory of the process!