{"id":6091,"date":"2013-12-19T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2013-12-19T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T10:31:10","slug":"mdt-force-users-supply-osd-computer-name-minint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/mdt-force-users-supply-osd-computer-name-minint\/","title":{"rendered":"MDT: Force users to supply an OSD computer name (MININT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machine that are deployed via Microsoft Deployment Toolkit<\/a> (MDT) are provided with\u00a0 a computer name that\u2019s provided during installation. By default this is a generated computer name similar to \u201cMININT-79S84T2\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since the GUI of MDT is quite slow \u2013 and won\u2019t show an hourglass –\u00a0 I noticed people tend to click [Next]<\/strong> twice on the previous screen. As a result they automatically accept the generated computer name instead of providing their own. It\u2019s more friendly to block the [Next]<\/strong> button on the Computer Details <\/strong>screen so users are force to provide a proper computer name.<\/p>\n

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Rules<\/h1>\n

Forcing users to provide a computername is easy. By changing the default computer name to a name that contains invalid characters the [Next]<\/strong> button is disabled (when an empty compute name is provided MDT will generate a MINIT-xxxxxxxx<\/em> computer name). One way of providing a default <\/strong>computer name is in the Rules <\/strong>of the Deployment Shares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n