Summer 2007 in Sweden is one for the record books, for being the rainiest one in a long time... So if you can't hit the beach, what do you do? Some serious coding of course! :)
So today I have released a Frontend for ZTI (BDD 2007) to the web...
Credits goes to Morgan Hjalmarsson, Sami Lehtonen, Martin Hultstrom and Kristoffer Lindblad for their efforts and continuous support...
Best Regards / Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup & Deployment
The name: Pretty Good Frontend
Download link
http://www.deployvista.com/Repository/BDD2007/tabid/74/EntryId/36/DMXModule/400/Download/attachment/Default.aspx
Features
- Only appears if computer is not in the BDD Database already
- Allows for entering a computer name
- Allows for Selecting target OU (Selection list is from live Actice Directory data)
- Allows for entering UDDIR folder (for replace scenarios)
- Allows for OSD/ZTI Image selection (Selection list is from live SMS data)
- Allows for role selection (Selection list is from live BDD database)
- Configured from rules in bootstrap.ini, no hardcoded values in the Frontend
- Started as a userexit (no scripts on the winpe image)
The screenshot
System Requirements
- A Windows PE 2005 image generated from the BDD 2007 Deployment Workbench
- Added support for ADSI (not terribly hard, just copy activeds.tlb and adsldp.dll from Windows Server 2003 SP1 to System32)
Configuration
- From the download, copy the following files to ZTI$ Share: Z-Frontend.vbs and Z-Frontend.hta
- From the \distribution\scripts folder, copy the following files to ZTI$ Share: wizard.css and wizard.ico
- Using Deployment Workbench, update bootstrap.ini using info from the sample files and update the Deployment Point (Update files only)
- I'm assuming your are running the BDD database on the SMS SiteServer (SMS Database)
The following values need to be configured in bootstrap.ini (sample for single and multiple locations included)
SMSSiteDatabaseServer: The Server name of the SMS SiteServer (database)
SMSSiteDatabaseName: The SMS database name
DomainController1: A domain controller to bind to
BDDDataBaseName: The BDD dataabase name
StartingOU: OU to list subOUs from (1 level only)
ListADUserName: User to Bind with AD
ListADPassword: Password for AD user
Note 1: Minimum Memory requirement is set to 256, you shouldn't deploy windows XP or higher versions with less, nor use WinPE 2005... :)
Note 2: If you have used Microsoft sample file (SERVERSP1-REMOVELIST.TXT) to reduce WinPE 2005 size, make sure you configure it to not delete the following
files
system32\mfc42.dll
system32\odbc32.dll
system32\odbcint.dll
system32\urlmon.dll
system32\security.dll
System32\scecli.dll
System32\shdocvw.dll
System32\msls31.dll
Note 3: As for usual I recommend configuring winbom.ini to always wipe the disk (otherwise leftover junk may prevent the setup)
Sample winbom.ini
[Factory]
WinBOMType=WinPE
Reseal=No
[WinPE]
Quiet=Yes
Restart=No
[PnPDriverUpdate]
[PnPDrivers]
[NetCards]
[UpdateInis]
[FactoryRunOnce]
[Branding]
[AppPreInstall]
[DiskConfig]
Disk1 = Disk1.Config
[Disk1.Config]
WipeDisk = Yes
Size1 = *
PartitionType1 = Primary
FileSystem1 = NTFS
QuickFormat1 = Yes
SetActive1 = Yes