MDT 2012 Customize "Running: Lite Touch Installation"

Customizing the MDT Progress bar.

There's various things you can do to the Litetouch progress bar. Today let's talk about the generic text that's displayed during deployments

"Running: Lite Touch Installation"

That doesn't look too pretty now does it.

Well a new added feature in MDT is that you can change it via the "_SMSTSPackageName" variable on customsettings!

This variable is unavailable in MDT2011 but in MDT2012 it is now parsed by ZTIGather.

Sample Customsettings.ini

[Settings]

Priority=Default

[Default]

_SMSTSOrgName=IT SUPPORT YORK INC.

_SMSTSPackageName=Consult %_SMSTSOrgName% for your deployments.

Oh yes, you can use another variable within another variable- awesome!

MDT 2012 is out

MDT 2012 is offically released.

You can head over here and download - TechNet Download

MDT 2012 Change Log

• Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 365.


• An enhanced user-Driven Installation (UDI) deployment method that utilizes System Center Configuration Manager 2012. UDI lets end users initiate and customize an OS deployment on their PCs—via an easy-to-use wizard.


• Ease Lite Touch installation through integration with Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).


• This release provides support for deploying Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a lab environment.