OSD Starter Scripts

Chapter 19, “Operating System Deployment,” provides a thorough discussion of implementing and using OSD. Here are Visual Basic scripts that could be useful:

CompName.vbs: Automatically generates a computer name based on the system’s vendor, serial number, and chassis type, and then sets the OSDComputer task sequence variable

DumpVariables.vbs: Dumps all task sequences variables

GenAppList.vbs: Creates a series of task sequence variables for use with the multiple install functionality of the Install Package task

GetProcs.vbs: Sets a task sequence variable to the number of processors in the system

Pause.vbs: Pauses the task sequence until the file go.txt is created on the X: drive

RestoreExtraState: Copies the OSDStateStorePath ...

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