Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Summary

In this chapter, we've discussed the task sequence and how variables are utilized by the stock scripts; we also discussed how to create our own variables for different hardware configurations.

We've also looked at the structure of the CustomSettings.ini and variables.dat files and Unattend.xml file. More importantly, we've discussed the interconnectedness of CustomSettings.ini and how it is used to variable-ize Unattend.xml dynamically. On top of this, the task sequence itself can make Unattend.xml values into variables as well for our deployment purposes.

We've also walked through the deployment task sequence structure and covered the gotchas, frequently used areas, and best practices.

Lastly, we've gone over monitoring, from its roots to ...