There are plenty of examples out there for how to get the most out of Task Sequences for SCCM 2007 OS deployment.  But I wasn’t motivated to find out how others were doing it…Until I saw a demonstration by Jarvis Davis that he presented at MMS 2009. 

From that I built my own custom HTML Application to do what I needed.  At the moment, I have not enabled HTA support in my WinPE boot images.  So the below example is purely a “BackEnd” script which simply means that it needs to run at the towards the end of the Task Sequence so that the end-operator (or end-user) does not need to wait for much of the imaging to complete.

This HTA does the following

  • Field to enter in the name of user to add into the local Administrators group
  • Selection for US time zone to configure Windows to use (defaults to MST, since that is where I am)
  • Option to install one of 6 flavors of Adobe Acrobat
  • Option to install one of 2 flavors of Project 2003
  • Option to install one of 2 flavors of Visio 2003
  • Option to install BlackBerry desktop
  • Option to install Streets and Trips 2006

Additional things to note

  • In order to add a domain user to your local admins group, the value sDomainName = “YourDomainName” must be filled in appropriately.
  • All activity is logged into C:\CustomSystemOptions.log
  • If one of the options to install software is selected, a Task Sequence variable is created and set to True.  To utilize this, you would need to have an Install Software task that is limited to only install of the corresponding variable is set to True.  Note: the Install Software task must be after the execution of the HTA!

Hope this is helpful!

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=windows-1252″>
<title>OSD Option Choser</title>

Full CustomSystemSettings.hta Code Here