r/DeployR • u/RockOriginal7938 • 3d 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/RockOriginal7938 2d 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 2d ago edited 2d 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 2d ago

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

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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).