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Summary – This page will present a summary of the specified options, click Next.
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Progress – This page will display a progress bar during task sequence creation.
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Confirmation – A confirmation of the successful creation of the task sequence will be shown, click Finish to
close the New Task Sequence Wizard.
5. Close the Deployment Workbench.
The replace computer task sequence performs three primary tasks:
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Capturing the user state including user data with USMT
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Performing an image based backup of the retiring computer
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Wiping the disk
For each of these tasks to run on the retiring computers, the rules of the deployment share must be altered to either
allow the prompts for these actions to be displayed in the Windows Deployment Wizard or to specify actions based on
variables. As shown in the deployment task sequences in
Chapter 5 , the deployment share rules can be configured to
perform actions based on the computer model. This might be useful when retiring a specific model from use in your
organization, but more commonly the computers to be retired are more specific. To specify an individual computer
where the replace computer task sequence and subsequent prompts or actions should be run, the MAC address can be
used.
To specify rules by MAC address, the priority of rules must be altered. Add the MAC address variable to the rules priority
by modifying the [Settings] section of the deployment share rules to the following:
[Settings]
Priority = MACAddress, Model, Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty
To configure rules for a MAC address where the prompts for user data migration and backup will be displayed, add the
following section to your deployment share rules where 00:00:00:00:00:00 is the MAC address of the target computer.
[00:00:00:00:00:00]
SkipComputerBackup=NO
SkipUserData=NO
This configuration will cause the Windows Deployment Wizard to prompt if a computer backup should be made, or if
the user data should be stored for migration to another system to be displayed. To wipe the disk of the retiring
computer, add the line WipeDisk=TRUE to section identified by the MAC address.
The backup of user data can also be specified without the display of the prompts. For example, to instruct the data to be
written to a share on the deployment server, use the following rules:
[00:00:00:00:00:00]
SkipComputerBackup=YES
SkipUserData=YES
UserDataLocation=NETWORK
UDShare=\\SP3ProdDeploy\UserData