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2018

MDT No Longer Detects Enclosure Correctly

The SMBIOS Specification was updated again this year to add new enclosure type values that affect the IsDesktop, IsLaptop, and IsServer variables in MDT. These variables are populated by ZTIGather.wsf. To ensure your IsDesktop, IsLaptop, IsServer variables are accurate you should upgrade your MDT environment to version 8456.

Tracking Thin Installer Update History With ConfigMgr Current Branch

Due to customer feedback, Lenovo is introducing a couple of new features focused on tracking updates. Traditionally, updates installed on the client were logged in the Updates_log(timestamp).txt.

Admittedly, parsing through the log to find out which updates were skipped, installed, or failed is not that easy. If you're deploying a task sequence to your Lenovo systems that runs Thin Installer, you can only see if Thin Installer runs or not. How do you tell which updates installed without logging into each system and checking the logs?

A new switch can now be added to your Thin Installer command line that will do the following upon execution: