MDT Wizard: Use an external Customsettings.ini

Some month ago, I shared a tool, link Here, that allows you to generate a Customsettings.ini file in order to use it like a profile. This way you can create multiple INI files.

In this post I will show you a wizard that I have created to apply a profile you have created and use it during your deployment.

You can for instance create an ini profile for domain integration, workgroup, for computer that belong to a specific branch or whatever you want.
This listBox will use the MDT variable RulesFile that allows you to choose your Customsettings.ini file, I will talk about this variable in my next post.


How to get the wizard ?

• DOWNLOAD

How it looks ?

This MDT wizard below will list all ini files located in a specific folder.
In my case I created a folder INI_Profiles located in the Deploy folder from my master.

INI_Profiles folder 

Once the wizard is launched, the listbox below will list all ini files located in the INI_Profiles folder.

INI files List

If an Profiles folder can't be found the below warning will appear.

No profile folder found warning

If there is a folder but no profiles the below warning will appear.

No profiles found warning

How to use it ?

1 / Download the wizard (xml & vbs files)

2 / Copy these files in your Deploy\Scripts folder

3 / Open BDD_Welcome_ENU.xml

4 / Add the Profiles pane as below

5 / Create an INI_Profiles folder in the Deploy folder

6 / Generate a INI profile file

7 / Run a deployment

8 / Select your profile


Wizard in action

In the below example we will create two INI profiles using the MDT profile Generator tool.
Then we'll check our ini files and run a deployment to see how to use our profiles using the wizard.

Profiles creation

The first profile will use the below configuration:
- Computer name = Computer1
- Workgroup = WorkgroupTest
- Language = French
- Locale = French
- Time zone = Paris
- Wizard to skip: ProductKey, UserData,Capture, Bitlocker

The second profile will use the below configuration:
- Computer name = Computer2
- Workgroup = WorkgroupTest2
- Language = Spanish
- Locale = Spanish
- Time zone = Madrid
- Wizard to skip: ProductKey, UserData,Capture, Bitlocker

Our INI files

See below, the first profile

See below, the second profile


See our wizard

Now let's run a deployment !!!

Wizard files

See below the INI_Profiles.xml file
See below the INI_Profiles.vbsfile