New Built-In Task Sequence Variables

In addition to new task types, ConfigMgr 2012 SP 1 and R2 introduce a handful of new built-in task sequence variables. As with the built-in variables that shipped with RTM, these new variables come in two flavors: read-only and writable.

Image The new read-only variables provide some information about the task sequence itself and are used to make conditional choices during the task sequence. Read-only is indicated by an initial underscore in the name of the variable.

Image Setting the values of the new writable variables ...

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