Graeme Bray

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MDT Wizard Panes – Watch your Case

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Just a quick post..

I am in the process of setting up my home lab on some servers that I have here.
– 1 PowerEdge 860
– 1 PowerEdge 2950

Both support 2012 R2. Hyper-V 2012 R2 is running on the 2950.

I set up a MDT Deployment Share on the 860. I tried to use the Hydration Kit for SC2012 that Johan has provided, but I wanted some specific customizations (and no viamonstra). I also wasn’t sure how to set it up to point at a different Hyper-V Host.

I went with what I know. I added a new Wizard Pane to my MDT (DeployWiz_AppProfile.xml) and I set it up so that I could have one task sequence to run each different type of Build that I wanted.

<Wizard>
	<Global>
	</Global>
	<Pane id="ServerRole" title="Server Role">
	<Body><![CDATA[<H1>Select an application profile for this server</H1>
		<div id="myMenu" Class="TreeList">
		
		<table style="width:100%;">
			<tr>
				<td colspan="2">
					<p style="color:DarkBlue; font-size:16px; font-weight:bold; font-family:Veranda, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
						<img src="MinusIcon1.png" /> <img src="FolderIcon.png" />Generic Builds
					</p>
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td style="width:15;">
				</td>
				<td style="width:500;">
					<input type="radio" name="GEBConfig" value="GEBBase" checked>Base Server <br />
					<input type="radio" name="GEBConfig" value="GEBWeb">Web Server <br />
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td colspan="2">
					<p style="color:DarkBlue; font-size:16px; font-weight:bold; font-family:Veranda, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
						<img src="MinusIcon1.png" /> <img src="FolderIcon.png" />Infrastructure Servers
					</p>
				</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td style="width:15;">
				</td>
				<td style="width:500;">
					<input type="radio" name="GEBConfig" value="GEBDC">Domain Controller <br />
					<input type="radio" name="GEBConfig" value="GEBWSUS">WSUS Server <br />
					<input type="radio" name="GEBConfig" value="GEBMDT">MDT Server <br />
				</td>
			</tr>
		</table>]]>
	</Body>
	<Condition><![CDATA[UCase(Property("SkipGEBSettings"))<>"YES" and Property("DeploymentType")<>"REPLACE" and Property("DeploymentType")<>"UPGRADE"]]></Condition>
	</Pane>
</Wizard>

I thought I was done. It looked good. I booted my DC01 VM. I got a strange script error after I entered my credentials in MDT.

Script Error

I looked at the Wizard.hta pane in Notepad++. I saw these lines of code:

		For each refItem in oReference.SelectSingleNode("//Wizard/Pane").ChildNodes
			item.AppendChild refItem.CloneNode(true)
		Next

Odd. I hit F8 to open the CMD window.

I navigated to the logs
cd\
cd MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLogs
Wizard.log

Command Prompt - WinPE

At the bottom of the log, it referenced my closing tag did not match my starting tag.

Error Line
(FYI, I am using CMTrace that does this highlighting. If you don’t have it, I highly recommend it – CM Trace)

I opened my DeployWiz_AppProfile.xml file. I checked my Body tags.

  • Line 5 
    <Body>
  • Line 41 – 
    </body>

Moral of the story – be sure to verify that your tags are at the proper case.

Written by Graeme

June 1, 2014 at 10:14 PM

Posted in MDT

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