Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 11 ( Shares ,Limited users,basic monitoring )
Creating the necessary Shares
For example backup share
Don’t forget to update the deployment share before you go live
Also updating the WIM boot file in WDS
Limited User
When you try to run the Litetouch script over limited user account nothing will happen he must be administrator for USMT to work correctly. so I created a basic script that will run the litetouch.vbs scripts as administrator then reboot and login into the local administrator followed by the normal task sequence . so copy the following into a vbs file (I call it start.vbs ) don’t forget to change the user name and password .
Note: you will get error massage when deploying over XP sp2
“when performing a refresh deployment the partition specified must be the same as the current OS partition “
This error goes away if you using XPsp3
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.run "runas /user:jumpstart\adm1n %comspec%" ‘Open command prompt WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.SendKeys "P@ssw0rd" ‘send password WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 1000 ‘Open MDT WshShell.SendKeys Chr(34) + "\\JS-SERVER.jumpstart.local\ds1$\Scripts\LiteTouch.vbs" + Chr(34) WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WshShell.SendKeys "exit" ‘Close command prompt WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}" WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}" WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" WshShell.SendKeys "exit" ‘Close command prompt set wshshell = nothing |
Next we create a patch file that will copy the migration patch file into the user desktop for us to make a user driven migration
Last thing we add the first restart into the task sequence
MDT Deployment Monitoring
Scom is the best method to monitor the deployment but this is not the case always so I found the below tool that will monitor the deployment live and give a sort of idea of what’s happening and what is the progress
You can download it from http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2010/11/25/simple-deployment-monitoring.aspx
