Late last year I wrote an article on how to rename computers before an image is applied during LANDesk’s OSD process (read this article first if you haven’t already). Here at CSN, we PXE boot our faculty/staff computers into LANDesk’s specially configured WinPE, which launches a GUI menu of OSD tasks. These OSD tasks can be anything really, but that is a story for another article. My previous article about injecting the computer name into the Sysprep.inf file used a VBScript. I have since then upgraded to an AutoIt script that gives us more options.
First, let me give a brief explanation of our environment. We have a parent domain, and a child domain for students. We have four LANDesk agent configurations: one for labs and classrooms, one for office computers, one for laptops, and one for computers that don’t reside on our network. The LANDesk agent gets installed during the GUIRunOnce section of Sysprep. So, I upgraded our OSD task to prompt the technician to select which domain to join (or none), and which LANDesk agent to install. Here is the script. I won’t go through line by line like I did for the VBScript; you’ll just have to visit the AutoIt documentation website to look up some of the functions. Re-read my previous article on how I did the VBScript. The AutoIt script follows the exact same logic, but expands the idea to add more options.
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
GUICreate("PC Rename", 250, 310) ; Create the GUI Window
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Enter the computer name:", 30, 10) ; Create a label
$computername = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 30, 30, 190, 20) ; Create the textbox
GUICtrlSetLimit(-1, 15) ; Limit the computer name to 15 characters
GUICtrlCreateGroup("Domain to join", 30, 60, 190, 90) ; Create the join domain "group" that surrounds the radio buttons
$optCSN = GUICtrlCreateRadio("CSN", 40, 80, 100, 20) ; Create the radio button to join the CSN domain
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_CHECKED) ; Set the CSN radio button as checked by default
$optSTUDENT = GUICtrlCreateRadio("STUDENT", 40, 100, 100, 20) ; Create the radio button to join the STUDENT domain
$optNONE = GUICtrlCreateRadio("Do not join a domain", 40, 120, 150, 20); Create the radio button to not join a domain
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", -99, -99, 1, 1) ;close group
GUICtrlCreateGroup("LANDesk Agent", 30, 150, 190, 110) ; Create the agent "group" that surrounds the radio buttons
$optStaff = GUICtrlCreateRadio("Standard Staff/Faculty", 40, 170, 150, 20) ; Create the radio button to install the Faculty Staff agent
GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_CHECKED) ; Set the Faculty Staff agent radio button as checked by default
$optDeepfreeze = GUICtrlCreateRadio("Deep Freeze Required", 40, 190, 170, 20) ; Create the radio button to install the Lab Classroom agent
$optLaptop = GUICtrlCreateRadio("Laptop/Roaming", 40, 210, 150, 20); Create the radio button to install the Roaming Laptop agent
$optRural = GUICtrlCreateRadio("Rural Site", 40, 230, 150, 20); Create the radio button to install the Rural Site agent
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", -99, -99, 1, 1) ;close group
$okbutton = GUICtrlCreateButton("OK", 100, 270, 60) ; Create the OK button
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) ; Show the GUI
$f = FileOpen("x:\LDClient\insertname.bat", 2) ; Create the insertname.bat file
While 1 ; infinite loop that waits for the GUI to receive a message
$msg = GUIGetMsg() ; get any user input
Select
Case $msg = $okbutton ; if the Ok button is pressed, check the options that the user selected
If GUICtrlRead($computername) = "" Then ; if blank computer name, use the LANDesk inventory computer name for the name.
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf COMPUTERNAME=%Computer - Device Name%")
Else ; else use the user input for the computer name
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf COMPUTERNAME=" & GUICtrlRead($computername))
EndIf
Select ; Chose the domain to join or not join a domain
Case GUICtrlRead($optCSN) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Join CSN domain
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf DOMAIN=CSN")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf NOWG=")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf WG=;")
Case GUICtrlRead($optSTUDENT) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Join STUDENT domain
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf DOMAIN=STUDENT")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf NOWG=")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf WG=;")
Case GUICtrlRead($optNONE) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Join WORKGROUP and no domain
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf NOWG=;")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf WG=")
EndSelect
Select ; Chose the Agent to isntall
Case GUICtrlRead($optStaff) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Install the Staff faculty agent
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf AGENT=instfacst.bat")
Case GUICtrlRead($optDeepfreeze) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Install the Lab Classroom agent
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf AGENT=instlabcl.bat")
MsgBox(64, "Deep Freeze Reminder", "1. Remember to run a scheduled Deep Freeze task for this computer in LANDesk Console after imaging is complete." & @CRLF & "2. Set the System BIOS to auto power on every day at 11:00 pm.")
Case GUICtrlRead($optLaptop) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Install the Laptop Roaming agent
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf AGENT=instlaptop.bat")
Case GUICtrlRead($optRural) = $GUI_CHECKED ; Install the Rural agent
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf AGENT=instrural.bat")
EndSelect
ExitLoop
Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE ; if the GUI is closed, the default is to name the computer using the LANDesk inventory, and not join a domain.
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf COMPUTERNAME=%Computer - Device Name%")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf NONE=;")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf WG=")
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf AGENT=instfacst.bat")
ExitLoop
EndSelect
WEnd
AutoIt scripts can easily be converted into an executable using AutoIt’s “Compile Script to .exe” tool.
I guess I also owe an explanation on how tokreplw.exe works. You can probably get this file by downloading the trial version of LANDesk Management Suite. This command takes two inputs: a file and a pair of tokens. The file is obvious, this is the target file to look at for token replacement. The token syntax is VARIABLE=VALUE, where VARIABLE appears in your target file as %VARIABLE%, and the value is whatever you decide. For example let’s examine one line in the prename.au3 script, line 35:
FileWriteLine($f, "tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf DOMAIN=CSN")
To help not confuse the Autoit portion of the code, we’ll break this down to the tokreplw command:
tokreplw c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf DOMAIN=CSN
So, the “c:\sysprep\sysprep.inf” file is targeted. Within this file, an occurrence of the variable %DOMAIN% will be replaced with the value of CSN, which is the name of our parent domain. If we crack open our sysprep.inf file (do an Advanced Edit in LANDesk Console), we have this:
[Identification]
%NOWG%JoinDomain=%DOMAIN%
DomainAdmin=csn\BadBoy
DomainAdminPassword=LeeroyJenkins
%WG%JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP
You can see the %DOMAIN% variable here. You will also notice several other variables as well. I use tokreplw to manipulate the sysprep.inf file dynamically, depending on what the technician chooses. If the tech selects to join a domain then %NOWG% becomes blank, and %DOMAIN% becomes the name of one of our two domains. The %WG% variable becomes a semicolon, which comments out the JoinWorkgroup line. If the tech does not select to join a domain, then %NOWG% becomes a semicolon, which comments out the JoinDomain line, and %WG% becomes blank. This configures the sysprep.inf file to join the computer to a workgroup instead.
Feel free to ask any questions about the script, and I will do my best to answer them.
