You view the MDT deployment process in the Monitoring node in the deployment share. The progress of the LTI deployment process is displayed as a percentage of completion.

Note   The percentage of completion displayed in the Monitoring node is based on the percentage completion of the steps in the task sequence, not in overall time. For example, if a task sequence has completed 20 steps in task sequence that has a total of 50 steps, then the process will show 40% complete.

To view the LTI deployment process

1.   Click Start, and then point to All Programs. Point to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and then click Deployment Workbench.

2.   In the Deployment Workbench console tree, go to Deployment Workbench/Deployment Shares/deployment_share/Monitoring (where deployment_share is the name of the deployment share that you want to monitor)

3.   In the details pane, view the deployment process for each computer being deployed.

4.   In the Actions pane, periodically click Refresh.

The status of the deployment process is updated in the details pane. Continue to monitor the deployment process till the process completes.

5.   In the details pane, click target_computer (where target_computer is the name of the computer being monitored).

6.   In the Actions pane, click Properties.

The target_computer Properties dialog box is displayed (where target_computer is the name of the computer being monitored).

7.   In the target_computer Properties dialog box (where target_computer is the name of the computer being monitored), on the Identity tab, view the monitoring information provided about the deployment process as described in Table 197.

Table 197. Monitoring Information About the Deployment Process

Information

Description

ID

Unique identifier for the computer being deployed.

Computer Name

The name of the computer being deployed.

Deployment status

The current status of the computer being deployed; can be one of the following:

·     Running. Indicates that the task sequence is healthy and running.

·     Failed. Indicates that the task sequence failed and the deployment process was unsuccessful.

·     Completed. Indicates that the task sequence has finished.

·     Unresponsive. The task sequence has not updated its status in the past four hours and is assumed to be nonresponsive.

Step

The current task sequence step being run.

Progress

The overall progress of the task sequence. The progress bar indicates how many task sequence steps have been run out of the total number of task sequence steps.

Start

Time the deployment process started.

End

Time the deployment process ended.

Elapsed

The length of time the deployment process has been running or took to run if the deployment process has finished.

Error

The number of errors encountered during the deployment process.

Warnings

The number of warnings encountered during the deployment process.

Remote Desktop

This button allows you to establish a remote desktop connection with the computer being deployed using the Windows Remote Desktop feature. This method assumes that:

·     The target operating system is running and has remote desktop support enabled

·     mstsc.exe is in the path

Note   This button is always visible but may not be able to establish a remote desktop session if the monitored computer is running Windows PE, has not completed installation of the target operating system, or does not have the Remote Desktop feature enabled.

VM Connection

This button allows you to establish a remote desktop connection to virtual machine running in Hyper-V. This method assumes that:

·     The deployment is being performed to a VM running on Hyper-V

·     vmconnect.exe is located in the %ProgramFiles%\Hyper-V folder

Note   This button appears when ZTIGather.wsf detects that Hyper-V integration components are running on the monitored computer. Otherwise, this button will not be visible.

DaRT Remote Control

This button allows you to establish a remote control session using the remote viewer feature in the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).

This method assumes that:

·     DaRT has been deployed to the target computer and is currently running

·     DartRemoteViewer.exe is located in the %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft DaRT 7\v7 folder

Note   This button appears when ZTIGather.wsf detects that DaRT is running on the monitored computer. Otherwise, this button will not be visible.

Automatically refresh this information every 10 seconds

Check box that controls whether the information in the dialog box is automatically refreshed. If the check box is:

·     Selected, the information is refreshed every 10 seconds

·     Cleared, the information is not automatically refreshed and must be manually refreshed using the Refresh Now button

Refresh Now

This button immediately refreshes the information displayed in the dialog box.

 

8.   In the target_computer Properties dialog box (where target_computer is the name of the computer being monitored), click OK.

9.   Close the Deployment Workbench

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