Long time ago I had a need to send email an email in the end of the task sequence to notify the technician that the OS deployment was done, therefore creating a script which then ended up as a blog post at Deployment Research about two years ago. This week I’m running a Mastering Windows 7 and 8.1 OS Deployment using Lite Touch and Zero Touch in Minnesota and there where some requests on the subject so I decided to create a new version of the script and this time it is a PowerShell script instead. One of the request was to be able to send and email to the administrator that does the deployment (in Lite Touch) using the login name, so that need to to be taken under considerations to.
The script is tested in MDT 2013 but should work perfect in MDT 2012 Update 1 as well and it works when deploying Windows 8 and above.
Lite Touch
First you need to download the script and sample customsettings.ini from here http://1drv.ms/1kvmobn and store the PowerShell it in the MDT Scripts folder.
Option Number One: Using the UserID directly
Update the CustomSettings like this. (you can copy and paste from the sample customsettings.ini files)
The name used to login to the LTI Wizard is defined as UserID and that is then used as a part of the email address to send it to.
Option Number Two: Using the UserID with translation.
In this case we create a section for every user account that should have an email an can logon. As an example, if you login as Administrator (don’t use that account!) an email would be sent to administartor@viamonstra.com, but you can have any other setting for that userID if you liketo.
Update the CustomSettings like this. (you can copy and paste from the sample customsettings.ini files)
Add a step in the TaskSequence.
Zero Touch
First you need to download the script and sample customsettings.ini from here http://1drv.ms/1kvmobn and store the PowerShell it in the MDT Package Scripts folder.
In the ZTI we don’t really have a UserID and therefore we just send the email to a predefined email address and cc to an other.
Update the CustomSettings like this. (you can copy and paste from the sample customsettings.ini files)
Add a step in the Task Sequence like this.
Update the settings package and the MDT Package.
If you need a SMTP server to test against, read this http://deploymentbunny.com/2014/06/12/nice-to-knowa-simple-and-small-smtp-mailserver-fr-devlabtest-smtp4dev/
/mike
