hi guys,

i'd like to know if there is a way to check Active Directoy if a computername that is specified during the Lite Touch install wizard already exists?  I remember our old RIS installation had this function using the OSC menu screens. 

what i want to do is to display a warning if the computername is already being used in the domain.   

thanks.

Rob 

there is a way to accomplish this.

when you tupe the computername in the inputfield of the wizard, a script checks after each change (thus after each character typed into the field) wether the computername has invalid characters. the name of the script is DeployWiz_Validation.vbs, and is located in the Scripts folder.

In the script, search for the function ValidateComputerName.

look on the internet for the right vbscript code which checks the existance of your desired computername in AD. Past that code in the function named above. Ofcource you have to modify it a bit to make is work.

Edit:

When you do it like i describted above, each time you type a character into the inputfield, the scripts checks AD for the computeraccount. So if you have a 20 character computername, AD is checked 20 times rapidly. This could bring some performace issues. 

Good luck.

what you suggest here is almost impossible. MDT is scripted is such way, that if you click the next button it triggers a specific functionhandler.

that means, if you add a AD check function to the next button, it always checks AD if you click that next button.

A more friendly option is, is to edit the computername wizard page. Just add a button to that page, and if you click on it, it checks AD for the existance of the entered computername.

something similar i've done before. I've added a function to specify local users, which are added later on in the TS if the OS is deployed.