Friday 20 June 2014

Adding VDI to specific OU using SetupComplete.cmd

    Adding VDIs to specific OUs can be accomplished by running a batch file which invokes a powershell script to do so. Create a file c:\windows\Setup\Scripts\SetupComplete.cmd and put in the content below.

***********SetupComplete.cmd*************

powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy bypass
powershell C:\Windows\Temp\JoinDomain.ps1
del C:\Windows\Temp\JoinDomain.ps1
timeout 30 
shutdown -t 0 -r -f


Create another file C:\Temp\JoinDomain.ps1 with the below content:

$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential -ArgumentList @("domainname\domainaccount", (ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force))

Add-Computer -DomainName "you.domain.com" -Credential $credential -OUPath ("OU=Your,OU=OU,OU=path,DC=at,DC=your,DC=domain")




the Account used needs to have sufficient priviliges to add computers to domain.

Detect autopilot session

  Ensuring that some apps only install during autopilot is not easily accomplished, you can use the below powershell script as a requiremen...