MDT Bundle Creation Options

You must customize your MDT deployment bundle by specifying the required options in the parameters.ini configuration file.

The following sections include parameters that you specify to set up and customize your MDT Bundle.

Note: All section and option names are case-sensitive.

General

This section of the parameters.ini file contains the general options. These are mandatory, unless otherwise specified.

target

Specifies a directory under which the MDTBundle and DeploymentShare directories are created. If this directory does not exist, it is created. For example, C:\BigFix OSD.

debug

Set to 0 to turn off debugging, 1 to turn on light debugging, 2 to turn on high debugging (requires some user interaction).

wimtoolkit

Specify the Windows Kit to use for the creation of the MDT bundle. The kit that you specify must exist on the system where you are running the tool. Possible values are:

WADK80: To use Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8.0.
WADK81: To use Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8.1.
WADK10: To use Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 10.
WAIK: To use Windows Automated Installation Kit.

usmt4x86location

Specify the path of USMT Version 4 (32-bit). These files are necessary to migrate user data from Vista computers - and refer to a previous installation of Windows AIK

usmt4x64location

Specify the path of USMT Version 4 (64-bit). These files are necessary to migrate user data from Vista computers - and refer to a previous installation of Windows AIK.

usmt301x86location

Specifies the path of USMT Version 3 (32-bit). This parameter must be specified only if you are reimaging to Windows XP. It is optional in all other cases.

usmt301x64location

Specifies the path of USMT Version 3 (64-bit). This parameter must be specified only if you are reimaging to Windows XP. It is optional in all other cases.

Note: Ensure that you have USMT versions 4 or 5 or 10 available prior to deployment. USMT 5 and USMT 10 are included in the Windows ADK installation, USMT 4 must be specified to reimage to Windows Vista. USMT 3 is mandatory only if you are reimaging to Windows XP.

MDTsources

This section specifies the locations of the OS resources (ISO files) that are used to create the DeploymentShare and MDTBundle. You can add an arbitrary number of media, but only a maximum of one per OS, architecture, and operating system service pack will be included in the resulting MDT Bundle. Windows XP resources are language-specific.

media1: Specifies an install media path for the OS resources. See the examples and explanations in the parameters.ini file. For additional media paths, use media2, media3, and so on.
media1_locale: For Windows server 2003 only. Specifies the language code for the Windows Server 2003 install media, indicated by the media1 key. You can find language codes at the following web address: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052(v=vs.85).aspx.
mediaisodir: Specifies the full local path to the directory containing the ISO images.
createmediaonly=yes: Specifies whether only OS resources are to be generated for the specified media items. This parameter places the OS resources in the target directory and does not create an MDT bundle.

WinPECustom

The WinPECustom section allows for the advanced customization of the preinstallation environment that is generated by this tool. You can place custom content into WinPE and have commands run at the beginning and end of the WinPE sequence. You can specify the following parameters:

sourcePath: path that is copied into the Windows PE.
destinationFolder: Windows PE root folder that contains the custom content.
preCommand: optional command that runs before starting the WinPE sequence.
postCommand: Optional command to run before rebooting.

sourcePath=C:\customContent 
destinationFolder=customScript 
preCommand=call X:\customScript\prerun.bat 
postCommand=call X:\customScript\postrun.bat

These example parameters copy all the files from C:\customContent so that Windows PE will have them under X:\customScript.

call X:\customScript\prerun.bat is started before task execution.

call X:\customScript\postrun.bat is started after task execution.

xpMassStoragex86

This section allows Windows XP x86 mass storage drivers to be specified. To deploy Windows XP images onto computers that require mass storage drivers that do not come standard in Windows XP, you must add these drivers to the image at capture time. The drivers specified in this section are automatically installed on Windows XP x86 computers before capturing.

location: A directory containing XP Mass Storage Drivers for x86. Only device IDs applicable to x86 are added. Any others are silently skipped.
force: Forces x64 device IDs to also be added.

xpMassStoragex64

This section allows Windows XP x64 mass storage drivers to be specified. To deploy Windows XP images onto computers that require mass storage drivers that do not come standard in Windows XP, you must add these drivers to the image at capture time. The drivers specified in this section are automatically installed on Windows XP x64 computers before capturing.

location: A directory containing XP Mass Storage Drivers for x64. Only device IDs applicable to x64 are added. Any others are silently skipped.
force: Forces x86 device IDs to also be added.