Sysprep & Capture issues - MDT

bbigford

Per this link, I know that lots of people are just using the capture task sequence & the litetouch.vbs script to capture images:

But I found this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Y0Lb7ARIs (FF to 6:05) which shows that MDT is capable of having a machine PXE boot to the task sequence without having to use the script.

I've made sure that the TS is enabled.
I've tried sysprepping the machine first (like how WDS-only environments require the machine sysprepped first... but since MDT uses the same engine as SCCM, it's not totally necessary).
I've updated my deployment share.
I've re-imported the boot image (not really necessary) into WDS and updated the deployment share again.
I've deleted and created a whole new task sequence and OS reference image from \sources.
I've made sure that "SkipCapture=NO" is a line entry in customsettings.ini

What am I missing here?

bbigford

So if I delete everything in my customsettings.ini, I can get it to the capture section. Here's what my settings look like, since it has to be something in there... Took secure stuff out and replaced with $

[Settings]
Priority=Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty

[Default]
OSInstall=Y
SkipCapture=NO
SkipAdminPassword=YES
AdminPassword=$
SkipProductKey=YES
SkipComputerBackup=YES
SkipBDDWelcome=YES
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES
SkipBitLocker=YES
SkipTimeZone=YES
TimeZone=(UTC -07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
SkipSummary=YES
SkipFinalSummary=YES
SkipTaskSequence=NO

SkipComputerName=NO
SkipLocaleSelection=YES

KeyboardLocale=en-US
UserLocale=en-US
UILanguage=en-US

UserDataLocation=AUTO
SkipUserData=YES

NetworkLocation=Work
JoinDomain=$
DomainAdmin=$
DomainAdminDomain=$
DomainAdminPassword=$
MachineObjectOU=OU=OS Deployment,DC=$,DC=$

BitsPerPel=32
VRefresh=60
XResolution=1
YResolution=1

bbigford

Removing line by line the last 5 sections to see what line is problematic...

bbigford

Problematic line is JoinDomain=$domainName