MDOP DaRT in sccm

can you add DaRT as a boot image in SCCM to boot up & use the tools?
 
 

That is a really good question, I have not played with Dart in a while so I would think that as long as there is a wim file on the disk someplace it should be doable.

Im going to give it a go tomorrow. It makes sense to have it avalible in SCCM rather than carrying around DVD's. Prior to SCCM I use to use a boot disk tool (RISME) in RIS with various tools which was very handy.

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Reading the last post from the above thread helps. You cannot import the boot image from the ERD ISO as its the wrong compression. you have to run the command to create a new boot.wim as described on the last post on that link. im just importing into sccm & will let you know what I discover next.
 
 

its working...

Most of this was down to Dieter from the thread above with some slight adjustments or more explanation.

1. Use ERD Commander Boot Media Wizard  from DaRT to create your ERD ISO. 
2. Extract the ISO using 7-zip or other to
3. Customize this cmdline to suit your directories
imagex /EXPORT e:\sources\boot.wim 1 c:\ERD65\boot.wim /COMPRESS maximum 

        e:\ is location of extracted ISO sources directory. 
        c:\ERD65\temp is location to create new compressed boot.wim 
 
Start> All Programs> Microsoft Windows AIK> Deployment Tools Command Prompt as an administrator & paste in your cmdline & run it. Wiat for new boot.wim to extract.
 
4. I copied c:\ERD65\boot.wim to e:\sources\boot.wim overwriting original.
  
5. Now Create boot image from e:\sources\boot.wim, add drivers & enable F8 Command line support, distribute to Site & SMSPXEIMAGES$ DP.
6. Create a new custom TS & set the boot image above as the boot image for this TS. Add the following TS steps 
        1. 'Restart in Windows PE' & condition 'Task Sequence Variable _SMSTSInWinPE equals "false"
        2. 'Run Command Line'  command line 'x:\sources\recovery\recenv.exe'
        3. 'Restart Computer' Specify what to run after restart: 'The currently installed default operating system'. Save TS.

7.Advertise the TS as you would a normal OSD.

I have actually done this for Windows 7 x64 and it works pretty well.

The steps I used to do so escape me but I will try to recreate and post for all. For now, here are a few links I used that helped me create what I have.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749147(WS.10).aspx

http://www.ditii.com/2010/02/15/replace-default-windows-7-windows-server-2008-r2-recovery-environment-re-in-dart/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749546(WS.10).aspx
 
Attached are screenshots of how I have it setup to run.
 
After I created the Boot Image, I created a Task Sequence that uses this and added two steps, one to reboot to the boot image assigned and another to launch the recovery tools once it is in PE.

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I have done exactly what you are looking for and have outlined it in great detail.  It is on my blog and you can find it on fritschetom.blogspot.com.  I hope the url doesnt get removed as i just became a member.

We use Dart with our Boot.wim but we did not integrate it. We created a custom media hook that we use to create the variables used by our task sequence and added Dart to that. So once it boots up. It will run Dart before it even gets to the task sequence.

fritschetom


I have done exactly what you are looking for and have outlined it in great detail.  It is on my blog and you can find it on fritschetom.blogspot.com.  I hope the url doesnt get removed as i just became a member.

Here is a driect link to teh DaRT blog post. http://fritschetom.blogspot.ca/2012/03/create-microsoft-dart-sccm-boot-disk.html

Do you know if there is a way to do this for Dart 5.0 / Windows XP?  There is no boot.wim provided for this version.

There is no reason to set this up for DART 5 and XP as SCCM uses a Windows PE based on windows 7 and such the DART for 7 should be used and can service and XP build.  I believe the only tool that doesnt work for Xp is locksmith.

Have updated my blog to include Dart 8 in ConfigMgr 2012.
http://fritschetom.blogspot.com/2013/04/step-by-step-replace-default-recovery.html
http://fritschetom.blogspot.com/2013/04/step-by-step-replace-default-recovery.html