Script Radio Button Powershell in OSD

[gbrown135]

I am working for a company who is looking to create a new Windows 10 image. I have a powershell script that prompts for a Computer name and this all works fine by passing the OSDComputerName variable to the TS.

I'm trying to introduce is another powershell script that will ask the user to select one of 2 domains. This is done by selecting one of 2 radio buttons in a Powershell Form called by a function. Whichever one is selected will create a custom TS variable and the variable will be passed on later to the Task Sequence and the correct Network Settings will be set dependent on which domain is selected. The problem is the Domain Select script doesn't seem to run as part of the TS and it just sits there. The code of the script is shown below

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#Disable Task Sequence Progress Screen

$tsui = New-Object -COMObject Microsoft.SMS.TSProgressUI

$tsui.closeprogressdialog()

# A function to create the form

function Domain_Form{

[void] [system.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")

[void] [system.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")

# Set the size of your form

$Form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form

$Form.width = 500

$Form.height = 300

$Form.Text = ”Please select domain"

# Set the font of the text to be used within the form

$Font = New-Object System.Drawing.Font("Times New Roman",12)

$Form.Font = $Font

# Create a group that will contain your radio buttons

$MyGroupBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox

$MyGroupBox.Location = '40,30'

$MyGroupBox.size = '400,150'

$MyGroupBox.text = "Select PRIMARY or SECONDARY Domain"

# Create the collection of radio buttons

$RadioButton1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.RadioButton

$RadioButton1.Location = '20,40'

$RadioButton1.size = '350,20'

$RadioButton1.Checked = $true

$RadioButton1.Text = "PRIMARY"

$RadioButton2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.RadioButton

$RadioButton2.Location = '20,70'

$RadioButton2.size = '350,20'

$RadioButton2.Checked = $false

$RadioButton2.Text = "SECONDARY"

#$RadioButton3 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.RadioButton

#$RadioButton3.Location = '20,100'

#$RadioButton3.size = '350,20'

#$RadioButton3.Checked = $false

#$RadioButton3.Text = "??"

# Add an OK button

# Thanks to J.Vierra for simplifing the use of buttons in forms

$OKButton = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button

$OKButton.Location = '130,200'

$OKButton.Size = '100,40'

$OKButton.Text = 'OK'

$OKButton.DialogResult=[system.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::OK

#Add a cancel button

$CancelButton = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button

$CancelButton.Location = '255,200'

$CancelButton.Size = '100,40'

$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"

$CancelButton.DialogResult=[system.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::Cancel

# Add all the Form controls on one line

$form.Controls.AddRange(@($MyGroupBox,$OKButton,$CancelButton))

# Add all the GroupBox controls on one line

$MyGroupBox.Controls.AddRange(@($Radiobutton1,$RadioButton2,$RadioButton3))

# Assign the Accept and Cancel options in the form to the corresponding buttons

$form.AcceptButton = $OKButton

$form.CancelButton = $CancelButton

# Activate the form

$form.Add_Shown({$form.Activate()})

# Get the results from the button click

$dialogResult = $form.ShowDialog()

# If the OK button is selected

if ($dialogResult -eq "OK"){

# Check the current state of each radio button and respond accordingly

if ($RadioButton1.Checked){

$tsenv = New-Object -COMObject Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment

$tsenv.Value("CustomDomain") = "PRIMARY"}

elseif ($RadioButton2.Checked){

$tsenv = New-Object -COMObject Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment

$tsenv.Value("CustomDomain") = "SECONDARY"}

}

}

# Call the function

Domain_Form

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The task sequence progress bar disappears when it's run but thats about it and nothing else ever comes back up.

The strange thing is if I run the script in a command prompt manually it runs OK

Any help would be appreciated

[anyweb]

are you running this in Windows ? if so the task sequence engine runs as the system account so you cannot see what it pops up, you need to use serviceUI.exe from the MDT toolkit to pop up your powershell gui

 

this post will give you the ideas needed to get it to work

[gbrown135]

are you running this in Windows ? if so the task sequence engine runs as the system account so you cannot see what it pops up, you need to use serviceUI.exe from the MDT toolkit to pop up your powershell gui

 

this post will give you the ideas needed to get it to work

Hi

 

No I'm running this in the TS Environment before a the OS Setup takes place, does this still apply at this stage of the TS?

[anyweb]

no if this is in WinPE then it's another problem so can you post your smsts.log file ?

[gbrown135]

Attached is my smsts.log

 

It doesn't say anything at all it just sits there like that in a frozen state as though the script has run but isn't showing on the screen

 

If I now open up a command prompt in WinPE I can run the script fine when I navigate to it

smsts.log

[Narcis]

I have similar scripts and I encountered a similar behavior recently. In my case, it turned out that I was executing the powershell script with the "Run PowerShell script" task, as I saw you are doing. The solution is to run this as a "Run Command Line" task. The explanation could be this: When you run the PowerShell native task, the script is executed in the same process as the Task Sequence, and when it closes the Task Sequence GUI, it closes also it's own GUI, hanging itself... When you run this with the Command Line task, it opens a new powershell process, that closes and resumes the Task Sequence GUI.