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SkipTimeZone=YES

TimeZoneName=Pacific Standard Time

UserDomain=SP3DEPLOY

UserID=MDT

UserPassword=P@ssw0rd

SkipFinalSummary=YES

Listing 4.1: Specifying Additional Customizations in the customsettings.ini File.

Note: This guide does not outline every possible customization option in the customsettings.ini file. For more details

about what can be customized and the values that can be specified, refer to the MDT Toolkit Reference, available in the

MDT documentation. For more information about downloading MDT documentation, refer to the Installing Deployment

Tools section of Chapter 3.

The additional settings specified in Listing 4.1 are:

 SkipBDDWelcome – Setting this value to YES bypasses the MDT Welcome Page when the Windows Deployment

Wizard is launched.

 SkipUserData – Setting this value to YES bypasses the prompts to back up or restore user data.

 UserDataLocation – Setting this value to NONE instructs MDT that user data should not be backed up. For more

information on backing up user data with this setting, see the Migrating User Data section of Chapter 8. This

setting is required when specifying YES for the SkipUserData rule.

 SkipDomainMembership – This setting controls the prompts for domain or workgroup on the Computer Details

page of the Windows Deployment Wizard. When set to YES, the setting JoinWorkgroup or JoinDomain must

also be set to supply the information otherwise provided at the prompt.

 SkipLocaleSelection – This setting controls the localization and language prompts on the Locale and Time page

of the Windows Deployment Wizard. When set to YES, the following settings must be configured to specify the

information otherwise provided at the prompt:

o KeyboardLocale

o UserLocale

o UILanguage

 SkipTimeZone – This setting controls the prompt for time zone. When both the SkipTimeZone and

SkipLocaleSelection settings are set to YES, the Locale and Time page will be skipped. When set to YES, the

desired time zone must be specified with the setting TimeZoneName.

 These settings are used to specify the credentials used by the Windows Deployment Wizard during

deployment:

o UserDomain

o UserID

o UserPassword

 SkipFinalSummary – This setting determines whether a final summary will be displayed upon deployment

completion.

Note: The reference system, the computer that will be prepared with a base configuration before being captured to an

image for deployment to other computers, should not be joined to a domain to ensure that no group policies are

applied to the base environment. To ensure that systems deployed in the lab environment are not joined to the domain,

the JoinWorkgroup setting must be specified in the deployment share rules.