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Another deployment share could be used to provide a full-featured deployment across the organization, but is secured
so that it is only available to the IT department. Even a third share could be configured with another select deployment
configuration and made available only to select groups or users to help facilitate a staggered deployment.
Windows Deployment Wizard
The Windows Deployment Wizard, also known as simply the deployment wizard, is the user interface through which
MDT is presented on client or target systems. It can be launched directly through network access to the deployment
share or it is the interface presented when launching MDT boot media. The deployment wizard is used to select
between task sequences to run on the client system and to provide any user interaction that wasn’t automated to
complete the deployment process. For example, the deployment wizard can request a computer name or to select
between time zones. It can also prompt whether to generate a backup of the computer before deploying the new
operating system and whether to encrypt the environment during deployment. An example of a deployment wizard
prompt is shown in Figure 2.1.
Figure 2.1. Windows Deployment Wizard Showing Prompt.
The experience provided by the deployment wizard is controlled by a selected task sequence and a configuration file,
named customsettings.ini. Customsettings.ini contains settings for technician prompts and supplied answers. For
example, automating the process of joining to a domain during deployment can be configured in customsettings.ini.
Editing and configuring the customsettings.ini file is shown in
Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 .
Connectivity to the deployment share is secured by Windows credentials to the network share. When the deployment
wizard launches, it will prompt the technician for user credentials each time it is run. However, it is possible to prevent
being prompted each time by storing credentials in a configuration file, named bootstrap.ini.