Setting Hostname before Applying Operating System

[2ez24get]

I have a working Online Windows 7 OSD with the Unknown Computers Collection in SCCM 2007 SP2. I want to make a Offline USB deployment. I want a script to prompt for a Hostname before the Applying Operating System in the TS. If someone can post step by step procedure. I tried the MDT computername.vbs but it did not work. Do I need to add a TS Variables?

 

Thanks.

[DizzleSizzle]

Not sure if this will help, but this is what i use for unknown computer support and works like a charm.

 

http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/javery/archive/2009/01/23/have-os-deployment-ask-for-a-computer-name.aspx

[Peter van der Woude]

Or create a collection/ computer variable called OSDComputerName and don't give it a value. At the beginning of your TS it will ask you then for a value

[2ez24get]

Not sure if this will help, but this is what i use for unknown computer support and works like a charm.

 

http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/javery/archive/2009/01/23/have-os-deployment-ask-for-a-computer-name.aspx

 

I do have a VBS script in a package and run it from the TS via a run command line like the tech article say's to do. I have tried the following script computername.vbs from MDT 2010 and it fails to run in the task sequence. I get an error that the oEnvironment variable has not been defined.

 

Option Explicit

 

Dim numCount

Dim strComputerName

Dim objOSD

Dim mname

 

strComputerName = InputBox ("Please enter a name for the new computer:" ,"New Computer Name",mname,10,10)

if strComputerName = "" Then

Wscript.Echo "You must enter a computer name."

Else

oEnvironment.Item("OSDNEWMACHINENAME") = strComputerName

oEnvironment.Item("OSDCOMPUTERNAME") = strComputerName

End If