Image Customization Questions

[rickray76]

Greetings! Good Morning!

 

I have 3 different task sequences and I have questions about customizations. I am stuck with the same issue on all of them.

 

1. Power Options - I don't want to set these using a GPO because I want the user to have the ability to change if it don't suit their needs (Power button - shut off, sleep button - do nothing, lid closed - do nothing) I set it up in client settings somewhere but it doesn't make the change after imaging.

 

2. Internet Explorer - Set Home Page, Enable Menu, Favorites, Favorites Bar

 

3. Domain administrators in local Administrators group after joining domain - I have tried a .vbs file and I have tried net use but it doesn't add all of the groups.

 

4. Bitlocker - Because I kick off bit locker at the end to start encryption, it does not delete the c:\_smsts folder. I would like the task sequence to be considered done.

 

Any help on any of these items would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks

 

Richard Ray

 

[Iroqouiz]

1. If you have configured this in default clients settings in SCCM those settings are applied to the client machine after imaging is done, when the client machine has been fully registered in the SCCM database and has downloaded machine policy. If you have created custom client settings and deployed them to a different collection those settings will not be applied to the client if it's not a member of that collection.

 

2. This is easier to configure with GPO or with an unattend.xml file applied to the OS image during OSD.

 

3. Configure this with GPO easily.

 

4. Not familiar with Bitlocker really, sorry.

[kevlar01]

1. You can achieve this with powercfg.exe with the import switch

2. Could be done with GPO, but also with the import of some reg key's

3. This is default when adding a computer to the domain?

4. Check the smsts.log. The folder will be deleted if the task sequence completed successfully. So it seems that some tasks didn't finish correctly.