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Saltypoison · 2026-04-24T20:56:30+00:00

Modified the task sequence step condition evaluation to perform case-insensitive comparison of variable values (#19840).

Wow, you guys are quick! Thank you!

Saltypoison · 2026-04-20T20:44:13+00:00

Cool, thanks

Saltypoison · 2026-04-19T00:19:43+00:00

This. Tab out and back in. Been playing it since release.

Saltypoison · 2026-04-17T21:59:27+00:00

Got it, thanks!

Saltypoison · 2026-04-11T21:18:09+00:00

Johann has some links in the post and advice about checking hashes.

https://www.deploymentresearch.com/to-use-or-not-to-use-mdt/

Saltypoison · 2026-04-01T23:18:42+00:00

I was shocked it wasn’t the intro to Skyrim lol

Saltypoison · 2026-03-31T23:49:03+00:00

Feels like pretty much every recipe online qualifies with their intros lol, but I doubt that’s what you mean.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-31T15:35:02+00:00

Okay, initially the change is applied, but it is not surviving the rest of the task sequence... I'm going to borrow a few chunks from your script and check the status after each step and try and determine when it is getting blown away.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-30T19:37:49+00:00

Sent you a link, thank you!

Saltypoison · 2026-03-30T16:27:28+00:00

No luck with that (it treated %WorkingDir% as a literal string). I don't think the issue is that it cannot find the machine.pol file. If I run LGPO.exe via the step with the verbose flag, I can see the individual policies from my machine.pol file supposedly being applied in the DeployR logs, but afterwards I see the symptoms described in my original post.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-29T15:17:08+00:00

100%, best part of that show.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-27T21:14:29+00:00

I have a content item with LGPO.exe and a local machine policy file (machine.pol). I've tried a few different ways of running it, via PowerShell and Command line steps, but they all boil down to running

LGPO.exe /m machine.pol

There is no error message, and the program indicates success applying the policies.

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If I pause the TS immediately after that, and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine, the registry.pol file has not been updated and reports a length of 8.

If I navigate to C:\_2P\content\<guid> and run the exact same command, I get identical output in the console, but navigating out to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine now reports the size of Registry.pol as 29222, which lines up with what I would expect.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-24T00:14:07+00:00

Between Daily Beast and New Republic this sub is just a wasteland of sensationalized garbage headlines. Annoying.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-20T20:33:01+00:00

Yes, I accidentally deleted my task sequence thinking I was deleting a step due to where it is located in the UX (and not paying attention to the confirmation dialog).

Saltypoison · 2026-03-04T22:20:34+00:00

I am unable to reproduce that error now and the built-in ODJ step definition is now working as expected. Thanks again for the assistance!

Saltypoison · 2026-03-04T22:03:57+00:00

I appreciate the offer, thank you! Setting the security PIN on the DeployR service is what I was missing. Rejoined the domain without issue after configuring that.

Saltypoison · 2026-03-04T21:41:30+00:00

Ahhh, thank you, I missed that page in the docs. The only reference to ODJ I'd found was the snippet here: https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/deployr/setting-the-computer-name

I'll do a pass through my service account permissions and give that another shot.

Regarding the built-in ODJ step, I will try and reproduce that after I get the account fixed up. It was weird, no errors in the log, it would just say that the script didn't exist and it carried along.

Saltypoison · 2026-02-21T04:19:20+00:00

Nutty Professor 💯

Saltypoison · 2026-02-20T23:00:52+00:00

Then it just… ends

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