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On March 21, the first day of MMS 2011, I announced the immediate availability of the Deployment Research blog and Deployment Research Facebook page. Sites filled with video-tutorials on how to deploy operating systems. Information about this new site, as well a bunch of other deployment related community sites was by the way also printed (thank you FedEx) and put in the attendee-bag (Thank you Microsoft) for every MMS 2011 attendee, about 4000 people.

This also means that the deployvista.com blog will not be much active anymore. It will still exist, but the content will gradually be migrated over to the new site, cleaned-up and converted into the new format…

Happy deployment, and I hope to see you online in the forums…

Regards / Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP – Setup & Deployment


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Posted by: johan 1/30/2008

The _SMSTSORGNAME value does not work with ZTI and SMS 2003, only with SCCM 2007 or Lite Touch.

Background:
The problem happens because with ZTI and SMS 2003, Microsoft Deployment call the task sequencing engine TSMbootstrap directly from the DP.  Since it is running from the DP the variables.dat file would also need to be on the DP to pick up the variables.  Microsoft Deployment store the variables in the OSDENV.INI and synch up the variables after the task sequencer starts but by then it is too late to set the _SMSTSORGNAME variable.

Here is the workaround (gracely provided by Tim Mintner)

Create a variables.dat file in your package source and distribute that to your DP’s.  The contents of that variables.dat file should be the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<MediaVarList Version="4.00.5345.0000"><var name=”_SMSTSORGNAME”>My CorpName</var></MediaVarList>

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