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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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Location: BlogsJohan Arwidmark    
Posted by: johan 11/2/2007

One of the most common issues with MDT 2008/2010 and BDD 2007, LiteTouch and ZeroTouch, is leftover junk from a previous installation preventing a second installation to continue... The solution... Get rid of the junk...

Note: Make sure to do these changes only to the winpe images used for bare metal installations... (wiping the disk in the middle of a refresh installation might lead to , ehh, unexpected, results)

LiteTouch
Create a script that removes the MININT and _SMSTaskSequence folders (if present).

CleanSetupInProgress.cmd

If Exist C:\MININT\nul rd C:\MININT /s /q
If Exist C:\_SMSTaskSequence\nul rd C:\_SMSTaskSequence /s /q

Call the script from unattend.xml (in WInPE)

Unattend.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State">
            <Display>
                <ColorDepth>16</ColorDepth>
                <HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution>
                <RefreshRate>60</RefreshRate>
                <VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution>
            </Display>
            <RunSynchronous>
                <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Description>Lite Touch PE</Description>
                    <Order>1</Order>
                    <Path>cmd /c CleanSetupInProgress.cmd</Path>
                </RunSynchronousCommand>
                <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Description>Lite Touch PE</Description>
                    <Order>2</Order>
                    <Path>wscript.exe X:\Deploy\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf</Path>
                </RunSynchronousCommand>
            </RunSynchronous>
            <Restart>Restart</Restart>
        </component>
    </settings>
</unattend>


ZeroTouch (SMS 2003 OSD FP)
Just add a winbom.ini that will wipe and format the disk... se below example...

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

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Re: Leftover junk prevents new installation in MDT 2008/2010 and BDD 2007    By mmadsen23 on 7/12/2011
I am receiving this error running MDT 2010 Update 1. LiteTouch has encountered an error. I deleted the MININT folder but the message still pops up immediately after inputing the details to capture the reference machine. There was no _SMSTaskSequence folder on the drive. Any ideas? I don't want to run dispart and wipe the drive since I want to capture the machine.


Re: Leftover junk prevents new installation in MDT 2008/2010 and BDD 2007    By johan on 7/24/2011
Well, upload the bdd.log somewhere and post the link...

In general I don'r recommend using the capture only task sequence since it's buggy. I prefer the build and capture sequences which is rock solid...

/ Johan


  
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