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HTA Task Sequence

Create an empty custom task sequence that holds the boot image for the unknown computers, so that the SoftwareCentral HTA can be deployed.

Custom task sequence Boot image

1 Create the task sequence

The next step is to create an empty task sequence that will hold the new image. In the Configuration Manager console, go to Task Sequence and press Create Task Sequence, and a new wizard will open.

First step of the Create Task Sequence wizard, Create New Task Sequence, with the option Create a new custom task sequence selected.
The first step of the wizard. Select Create a new custom task sequence.
  1. Select Create a new custom task sequence in the first step, as seen above.
  2. Press Next.
  3. Name the task sequence SWC Unknown Computers, as seen in the picture below.
  4. Press Browse.
  5. Select the newly created boot image.
  6. Press Next.
  7. Press Next and make sure there is no error.
Task Sequence Information step of the wizard with the task sequence name SWC Unknown Computers x64 and the boot image WinPE amd64.
The Task Sequence Information step. The example in this picture is named SWC Unknown Computers x64, and the boot image is WinPE amd64, the image you created on the Setup Windows PE page.

2 Next step

Deploy the task sequence to the unknown computers. See HTA Deployment.

3 Best practice

  • Use this task sequence for unknown computers only. The boot image in it starts the HTA, so no other task sequence should be deployed to the same collection. See the note in HTA Deployment.
  • Select the boot image you prepared on the Setup Windows PE page. A boot image without the prestart command does not start the HTA.
  • Read the summary before you finish. Step 7 asks you to make sure there is no error; fix any error before you go on to the deployment.