[MDT] New Version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Wizard Editor Now Available

Michael Niehaus has just released a new version (v2.1.0) of his MDT Wizard Editor:

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MTD) Wizard Editor is a simple .NET 2.0 application designed to assist with the process of editing the wizard XML manifest files used by the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. While it does not presently help much with the authoring of each wizard pane's content, it does simplify the more tedious parts of editing the XML manifest and the HTML embedded within each wizard pane.
Features available in the current release:

  • Editing. The Wizard Editor can open an wizard, add and remove panes, change and preview a pane's HTML, and change a pane's settings.
  • Testing. The Wizard Editor can execute a wizard, simulating the environment in which it would normally be used.


With version 2 of the wizard editor, the following enhancements have been added:

  • Adds the ability to modify task sequence variable values before running the wizard.
  • Shows the task sequence variables after the wizard completes.
  • Properly encloses XML definition file entries in CDATA tags so that special characters do not cause issues.
  • Works with MDT 2010. (This version has not been tested with MDT 2008, but should probably work with it too.)

 

Here’s the Release Notes for the latest version:

This release contains miscellaneous changes:

  • Added support for copying and pasting panes with new context menu items. When copying, the pane definition is placed on the clipboard. When pasting, a new pane will be added after the currently-selected pane. (You can also paste text from the clipboard as long as it looks like a valid pane, e.g. starts with "<Pane" and ends with "</Pane" and is valid XML.)
  • Fixed the behavior of text editing windows to allow tabs and returns.
  • Added an icon and cleaned up other UI behaviors.

 

To find out more/ download this tool goto:

http://mdtwizardeditor.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=35062

Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/cliffs_blog/archive/2009/10/28/mdt-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-mdt-wizard-editor.aspx

Published Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:22 AM by Cliff Hobbs - FAQShop.com and Microsoft MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS
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