Comments on: ConfigMgr Front End HTA

By: FrWetz

FrWetz — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:31:46 +0000

I have found two reasons:
- We are deploying Windows 7, no hta from Network is allowed (perhaps because Group-Policies are active …)
- in a Tasksequence running in already deployed OS (not the WinPE Bootimage!) you can’t run any Packet with GUI …

The single advertised packet runs now after local copy and call “C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe “\InputBUandCountry.hta”

I’ll try now a hack with “runonce” and transfer InputData via Registry to TaskSequence …

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:37:16 +0000

as long as your boot image was created with the MDT integration, it has HTA support built in…so you don’t need the “C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe “. Your command line would just be “InputBUandCountry.hta”.

By: FrWetz

FrWetz — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:33:18 +0000

Ok, but these prerequisites are fullfilled. We got W2K3 SP2, SCCM 4.00.6487.2000 with MDT-Integration, my 3rd entry in TS is (Run Command Line) ‘C:\Windows\system32\mshta.exe “InputBUandCountry.hta” ‘ where the .hta-script is a modified copy of your script. The containing Package is a quite normal Package, not “MDT -> use Toolkit Package”. The deployed OS is Windows 7.

Additionally I tried it out with a wrapper (a vbs-script which does “call sh.run(“mshta.exe InputBUandCountry.hta”). In a TaskSequence I don’t get any Program run, which has a GUI …

How “to setup the package that contains the hta file”?

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:38:54 +0000

Two things to check are where in the TS you are putting the HTA step and if you have the package that contains the HTA file set up correctly (along with the command line for that step in the TS).

I can’t remember exactly where the HTA step was, but I do remember not being able to have it be the first step in the TS. I think it was 2-4 steps from the top in a standard TS created with the MDT integration into ConfigMgr.

By: FrWetz

FrWetz — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:10:58 +0000

Hello Jarvis,
I need to get User input, but I can’t start your (modified) script from a TS. Without SCCM this script runs fine (TS-Variables excluded).
In a TaskSequence the mshta-Process starts (under system-account) but no hta-script comes up. What the hell i’m doing wrong? How to call hta-script in TS?
Much thanks for answering.

By: eskonr

eskonr — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:14:17 +0000

Great! going to test it today on this.

Eswar
http://eskonr.wordpress.com

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:02:38 +0000

The action performed by the button on the front end HTA is to simply set the value of some task sequence variables. There’s nothing to do to link it to the task sequence.

By: jaysjay

jaysjay — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:52:50 +0000

How do you link the front end hta button to your task sequence?

I would like to know that aswell :)

Thank you

Cheers

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By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:35:18 +0000

Kurt,
Not as far as I know, but I haven’t had a need to use the x64 boot image with an HTA.