dewin Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Hello, Is it posible to create you own Computer Name, Example (WI001) or is it posible to stop the SmartDeploy.xml so the Computer name can be manualy given? <!-- 0 = Use the existing computer name, 1 = Use the following naming method --> <naming_mode>0</naming_mode> <naming_methods/> <custom_naming_scheme/> Thanks for the reply. Kind regards Dewin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Hello Dewin, SmartDeploy offers a number of ways to name target devices during deployment. The default way is to use the existing name from the current OS on the device. If the existing name cannot be found it defaults to a randomly generated name. The other options you have are to name based on a WMI query on the local machine, or to use a prefix with randomly generated characters. These options can be accessed by clicking Advanced on the welcome page of the Deploy Wizard. Thanks, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewin Posted February 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Hello Erik, Thanks for your reply. Can i force (unattended) in any way that when i deploy a system, SmartDeploy asks me for a name even when there is a existing name present? Kind regards, Dewin Hello Dewin, SmartDeploy offers a number of ways to name target devices during deployment. The default way is to use the existing name from the current OS on the device. If the existing name cannot be found it defaults to a randomly generated name. The other options you have are to name based on a WMI query on the local machine, or to use a prefix with randomly generated characters. These options can be accessed by clicking Advanced on the welcome page of the Deploy Wizard. Thanks, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 Hello Erik, Thanks for your reply. Can i force (unattended) in any way that when i deploy a system, SmartDeploy asks me for a name even when there is a existing name present? Kind regards, Dewin Hello Dewin, Out of the box SmartDeploy will fail back to defaults if the naming is missing from the answer file. To get this to work you could run a script to delete the computer name section from the answer file that is passed to sysprep by SmartDeploy. This would then prompt the user or administrator setting up the machine for a computer name during Windows Welcome. All other screens of Windows Welcome would still be skipped and filled with the information you provided during the Deploy Wizard or in the answer file. The code below can delete the computer name form the answer file passed to sysprep. You will need to setup a post image task from the advanced options of Deploy Wizard. This is found by selecting Advanced on the welcome screen for Deploy Wizard. You can then create a task to call the VBScript which will delete the computer name. The script will need to be available to Deploy Wizard during deployment (either on the boot media, in the image or in the same directory as you image if deploying over the network). For Windows 7 UpdateXML "T:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml" UpdateXML "T:\windows\panther\unattend.xml" Sub UpdateXML(StrFileName) Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0") xmlDoc.Async = "False" xmlDoc.Load(strFileName) xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'" set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:ComputerName") objnode.parentnode.removechild(objnode) xmlDoc.Save(strfilename) End Sub For Windows XP UpdateINI "C:\Sysprep\Sysprep.inf", "UserData", "ComputerName", "" Sub UpdateINI(strFilename, strSection, strKey, strValue) If Not blnDebug Then On Error Resume Next Dim fso, f1, strINIContents, strOldSectionContent, strNewSectionContent, intSectionStart, intSectionEnd, blnKeyFound Const ForReading = 1 Const ForWriting = 2 blnKeyFound = False Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If fso.FileExists(strFilename) Then Set f1 = fso.OpenTextFile(strFilename, ForReading, , -2) strINIContents = f1.ReadAll f1.Close End If intSectionStart = InStr(1, strINIContents, "[" & strSection & "]", vbTextCompare) If (intSectionStart) Then intSectionEnd = InStr(intSectionStart, strINIContents, vbCrLf & "[") If intSectionEnd < 1 Then intSectionEnd = Len(strINIContents) + 1 strOldSectionContent = Mid(strINIContents, intSectionStart, intSectionEnd - intSectionStart) strOldSectionContent = Split(strOldSectionContent, vbCrLf) For Each Line In strOldSectionContent If UCase(Left(Trim(Line), Len(strKey))) = UCase(strKey) Then blnKeyFound = True Line = Left(Line, InStr(1, Line, "=", vbTextCompare) - 1) & "=" & strValue End If strNewSectionContent = strNewSectionContent & Line & vbCrLf Next If (blnKeyFound) Then strNewSectionContent = Left(strNewSectionContent, Len(strNewSectionContent) - 2) Else strNewSectionContent = strNewSectionContent & strKey & "=" & strValue End If strINIContents = Left(strINIContents, intSectionStart - 1) & strNewSectionContent & Mid(strINIContents, intSectionEnd) Else If Right(strINIContents, 1) <> vbCrLf And Len(strINIContents) > 0 Then strINIContents = strINIContents & vbCrLf End If strINIContents = strINIContents & "[" & strSection & "]" & vbCrLf & strKey & "=" & strValue End If Set f1 = fso.OpenTextFile(strFilename, ForWriting, True) f1.Write strINIContents f1.Close End Sub Let me know if you have any problems with this, Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewin Posted February 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hello Erik, Thanks for your reply. It works great Kind regards, Dewin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlinane Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Good Day, I know this is an old post but I did find a simple workaround for this. Except the default naming convention and select " Joining Domain" Plug in your domain credentials. Save your XML as Unattended and export to a Jump Drive. Open XML and scroll down to the computer naming section and look for the domain input to join the domain. Remove the domain name and save your XML. When you boot a machine and it starts the unattend, it will halt since there was a skip put in to join a domain which it can't since there is no domain info present. Now you can add your computer name and the domain to join. I also edited the XML to have the Welcome screen come up. This gives me the option to backup migration if needed and I edited the image area so it stops there and allows me to pick an image to install Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamintdog Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 @jlinane - thank you! Great info - worked perfectly. Unattend stops to prompt for domain input - you can then update both domain & computer name - and then unattend continues & completes successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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