MDT 2010 – The task sequence has been suspended

Had a strange error today. After some successful Windows 7 deployments to a Dell Latitude D630 test machine I got this error:

The Task Sequence has been suspended. LiteTouch has encountered an Environment Error (Boot into WinPE!).

I was pretty sure nothing happened to my Task Sequences, it must have something to do with the client machine.

Booted the laptop into the earlier deployed Windows 7 operating system, and deleted the two directories MDT has made:

• _SMSTaskSequence
• MININT

After removing these directories, the error was history!

Create a batch file (cleanTs.bat)with the below lines

RD /S /Q c:\minint
RD /S /Q c:\_SMSTaskSequence
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Mount the Litetouch..WIM from Boot folder
Copy the batch file to \windows\system32

Now open unattend.xmlfrom \deploy

Replace the below lines

” 1″
“wscript.exe X:\Deploy\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf”

with (make sure you dont copy the quotes (“))

“1″
“wscript.exe X:\Deploy\Scripts\cleants.bat”
“2″
“wscript.exe X:\Deploy\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf”

Save unattend.xml.
Unmount the WIM with “Commit”

Litetouch.wsf is the script which looks if a previous installtion is present on the destination drive, using the above method we are first cleaning the destination drive and then running litetouch.wsf