Stopping the Task Sequnce to execute automatically when booted from Stand Alone TS media

[srinu9]

Hi..

 

We are migrating to Windows 7 using the Stand alone USB Task Sequence media created by SCCM. Now i would like to include Symantec Ghost also into the same USB thumb drive for some disk cloning and backup purposes.

 

I want to have an option to start either Ghost or Task Sequence. For this, I can write a script which can promt to select which opttion to chosse..

 

But the problem is, i could not stop the task sequence to execute automatically after booting from the USB.

 

Any suggestions on stopping the TS to execute atomatically??

[anyweb]

you can simply create a step in your task sequence to start a HTA (hypertext application) which itself gives the user options such as Deploy Windows 7 using Configuration Manager or use Ghost (for whatever reason)

 

do you know that you can create full wim backups of your images without using ghost ? and migrate the data too ? see this HTA which does it all (and more)

 

cheers

niall

[srinu9]

HI Niall... Thanks for the reply....

 

I will give a try on the HTA today. Pretty new to that, will try to figure it out.

 

Thanks..

Srinu

[srinu9]

Almost there... Modified the Windows-noob Front end as per my requirement. Since I am not very familiar with scripting, it took a while for me to understand and modify the hta. Not yet included in the task sequence. Will do it tomorrow and post the results...

 

Thanks for the help Niall....

[anyweb]

no problem, it is doable without MDT but i see NO reason to NOT use MDT integration in Configmgr (no need for an MDT database, just integrate it to get acccess to the mdt scripts etc.)

[srinu9]

Got it working on the first go..... :-)

 

But I have problems with the resolution and icon Overlapping. Hope I can solve them.

 

Between, is there any option to get rid of those sccm default pop-up windows asking to click "Next" at the start of the task sequence and the window showing the task sequnece name. And is it possible to customize the progress bar too?? I want to add a progress bar with our custom back ground.

 

Ran into a new problem now.... I have got a brand new sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 thumb drive and created a Stand alone TS media on that. On a 2.0 USB port it is throwing an error saying "Unable to read task sequuence configuration disk"... I havn't tried it on a 3.0 port yet... any ideas??

 

Thnaks..

Srinu...

Edited September 6, 2012 by srinu9