Recently I helped one of the project team to automate
server builds.
As part of the automation, I have asked to create a
deploy task sequence with a computer name prompt so the technician can enter
the unique names based on the server type and location.
So the requirements are;
Name prompt
Name validation for uppercase only
First, I thought I will go with HTA and VBScript, and
then decided to go with OSD PlusPlus as I am already using OSDPlusPlus for
other things.
1. Downloaded
OSDPlusPlus from http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/pages/osdplusplus.aspx
2. Created
an XML file as below; (Name.xml)
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OSDPlus>
<GetReg
hive="HKLM" key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion" value="CurrentVersion"
varname="CurrentVersion" />
<GetWmi
namespace="root\cimv2" class="Win32_ComputerSystem"
property="model" varname="csmodel" />
<GetUser
title="Venu Singireddy Lab" subtitle="Please choose one from
below" icon="64">
<Textbox
prompt="Server Name" regex="^[^a-z\s._-]+$"
varname="ServerName" icon="45" helptxt="Please use
uppercase letters and numbers"/>
</GetUser>
<PutTSVar
varname="ServerName" tsvar="OSDName"/>
</OSDPlus>
3. Create
a package using OSDPlusPlus.exe and XML file
4. Add
to the Task Sequence as below.
4.1
After the Disk partition, create a “Run Command line” Step and rename to PC Name prompt. Add OSDPlusPlus64.exe
/Conf:Name.xml
4.2 Tick
Disable 64-bit file system redirection
4.3 Select
package which you have created in step 3
5. Above
steps will prompt for a computer name and validates given name to only for
uppercase letters and numbers then sets the given name as OSDName.
Task sequence will use the OSDName variable to
join the domain or that will be the computer name.
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