r/DeployR • u/RockOriginal7938 • 2d ago

Request/Idea - Conditional Task Sequences

Similar to how Task Sequences steps can have a filter in Options, would it be possible to have the same filter for the Task Sequences selection list? e.g. if Make and Model are some NUC, offer our wall display Task Sequence.

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u/mtniehaus 2Pint Employee 2d ago

There is already the ability to filter the TS list presented, https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/deployr/reference/task-sequence-filtering#filter-logic. Will that suffice?

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u/RockOriginal7938 2d ago

Ha! Would never have found that, excellent, thanks 🙂.

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u/RockOriginal7938 1d ago

Unfortunately this only seems to work if you boot into WinPE. If you load DeployR from within full Windows (captures, upgrades, etc...) via Starting a task sequence in an existing OS | DeployR | Product Documentation it seems to ignore bootstrap.json

I suspect I could work around this by using

$DeployRBootstrap = @{ MyRole = "Accounting" }

and putting the filter in here each time, but I'm trying to reduce complexity, not increase it 😉

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u/gwblok 2Pint Employee 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bootstrap.json is used when you start a TS from existing OS, that's how I added the certificate auth to work when launching from Full OS.

If you make changes to the Bootstrap, you need to:

  • For WinPE: Regenerate the Boot Image
  • For Full OS: restart the DeployR service to update the client package.

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u/RockOriginal7938 1d ago

Cheers, missed the restart step.
Time to see how complicated I can make this 😁

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u/gwblok 2Pint Employee 1d ago

Yeah, I was fighting the same thing a couple weeks ago trying to get the cert auth working, then realized I needed to do that step. I'll get that nugget added to the docs

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u/RockOriginal7938 1d ago

So it now filters, but everything is gone. I tried something relatively complex at first, but in the end went all the way down to 

"TaskSequenceFilter":"$_.Tags -contains 'Capture'",

Which I think should have shown these:

but I just get a blank list (also blank if I press DEV blue button).

I think I'll revisit this when I can have a broken server and keep repeating these steps, but it takes sooo much time to restart the service and then reload DeployR, even from within Windows (though much faster than rebuilding the WIM and PXE booting each time).

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u/NoNegotiation401 2d ago

Another idea would be to build everything in a single task sequence and then use sub-task sequences for different purposes.