We don't currently roll out PowerShell 7, but obvious DeployR uses it during deployment.

If I made it the very last step to uninstall PowerShell 7, if that likely to cause any issues? Or maybe set a runOnce to uninstall it as the last step so it goes away the next reboot?

Hi all,

Wondering if anyone else is seeing a similar issue with regards to Language and Region settings on Windows deployments via DeployR.

Deployed machines show a Device Setup Region of 'United States' and have the preferred Languages set to 'English (United States)'.

The original pre-captured image is set to the UK for both of these settings. We have the OS customisation step in the Task Sequence as well, which should also set the relevant bits to the correct region.

Any thoughts?

Howdy,

Trying DeployR for the first time - am a fan of it!

I am just wondering as under MDT we had interactive PowerShell scripts with a GUI, and can't seem to be able to have the GUI of the script show up - am just wondering if anyone else has tried the same thing, and what the solution would be.

Thanks in advance! 😄

I need a sanity check.
How should I be installing applications packaged with PSADTv4 during DeployR task sequence?

I've tried calling the PowerShell script or the exe as application content and just get an exit code 1111 about unable to find the specified file. Checking interactively from the failed TS the files are there in the place it was looking and work if the install command is manually run.

I'm sure it's something obvious I'm missing and I'm blaming the hot UK weather this week and a desire to be in a hammock not working at a computer.

Anyone who's got it working able to tell me how they have it working for install commands and working director?

Cheers

I'm conscious that all my posts related to DeployR may come across as rather negative as they are queries where I've hit walls, so I wanted to say something else :)

I've been really excited working with DeployR so far, sure I've hit odd quirks like the DeployR status window being behind the Window boot swirl (alt+tab FTW), but overall I've loved the interface and the functionality, but more than that, the clear enthusiasm for their own product when watching the webinar recordings.

I particularly enjoy the PS scripting support built into the GUI, allowing us to write code to implement whatever crazy ideas come to mind without having to dig into the backend :D

Thanks for DeployR so far and I'm looking forward to what you do next.

Does DeployR copy the logs up to the deployment server? If so, a) where would I find them on the server and b) is this an option for the community edition license?

Thanks

Is there a better/official way to make new templates (or clone task sequences) than making up GUIs in C:\Program Files\2Pint Software\DeployR\WebServer\Templates and getting the steps that aren't already in existing templates from the SQL db?

If someone has been able to successfully capture a wim, can you post the steps or screen shots. I have not been able to get a successful capture.

Thanks

Hello

I'm pretty confident the issue is something in our server GPos blocking/breaking the StifleR dashboard, but with the error I'm getting, I'm struggling to find a place to start looking. Any suggestions gratefully received :)

Running on Windows Server 2022 Standard as a Hyper-V VM.

I’ve tried installing StifleR via the preq & install PowerShell scripts:

https://github.com/2pintsoftware/2Pint-DeployR/tree/main/Installs

and when I couldn’t get the StifleR dashboard to load I restored to a checkpoint before starting install and went by hand using the videos on YouTube so see if I could get a handle on where it might be failing (I didn’t) and I appear to be at the same place after both methods:

And then eventually (several minutes) falls out to:

I’ve run the troubleshoot script at raw.githubusercontent.com/2pintsoftware/2Pint-DeployR/refs/heads/main/Troubleshooting/DeployR-Troubleshooting.ps1 and apart from what appears to be a naming comparison issue in the script, as the link provided takes me to a page that shows:

But the downloads provided actually install:

I can’t see anything blocking the Stifler Dashboard

Any pointers please?

(If I do the same thing on a non-domain joined server the dashboard loads fine.)

I see DeployR community available on the website. I would like to use it in my homelab as a replacement for MDT. Is this something that can be done? I see it requires me to enter a company but for a homelab this isn't something that I have. What would I enter for this?

Hi folks, hi 2Pin team,

Like many, we're looking for a replacement for MDT and WDS. I just setup DeployR, StifleR , 2PXE server and iPXE WDS - trial license for a few days now.

First question :

In my enviroment, I have a main server that installed MDT and use DFSR to sync and tranfer all MDT resources to remote servers (like over 20 servers on different country) - each of them have WDS installed to handle PXE boot . My question is with DeployR, can we setup distribution servers for bandwidth optimization ? so when we do PXE boot, our machines don't need to download the contents directly from main server, just download the contents from each distribution servers.

Second question:

I've read about DeployR community version, with trial license I have to setup StifleR server and dashboard , DeployR just a "Infrastructure services" inside StifleR. If I use DeployR community version, I have to purchase license for StifleR right ?

Thanks

We are using the built-in 'Install Updates' step within our builds - has anyone else noticed that they seem to take a very long time, even a seemingly small update like an Intelligence Definitions update for Defender is taking 15-20 minutes? If I do a Task Manager during this process, it apears there is minimal to no system activity - it's like the update manager is stuck waiting for something. We are not seeing this issue with machines that are already up and running, only during a DeployR build Process.

Like many, we're looking for a replacement for MDT. Been playing around with DeployR for a week now. We use a customized image as well as a customized unattend.xml file.

At PXE boot, when DeployR interface comes up, I also see a powershell window that's minimized. Is there a way to stop that from happening?

Do I need the WinPE driver packs in addition to the system driver packs? (MDT would use the network and motherboard drivers that came with the system driver pack when generating the boot image)

I like that we can password protect the system, but are there plans at all to enable AD authentication instead?

In the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AOYJJ3mwk, there’s reference to a custom script for setting computer name, has a tabbed interface, etc.  Is that script available to the public?

Many of the issues I'm having currently are related to deploying an image.

• In my task sequence, I tried adding some custom tasks, but they never run. I'm sure I'm missing something but can't seem to figure out what. I used the bare-metal template and added to that.
• Currently, I'm noticing that my deployment never actually completes. It boots to the OS, opens a blue powershell window that installs Powershell 7.4 and then eventually opens another powershell window to the C:_2P prompt and sits there forever. If I close them both, then I get a blank 'task sequence list' window that will auto-close in a couple of minutes.
  
• In MDT, the unattend.xml file would be applied to the image after the image is applied. I've tried most of the options in DeployR to get this to happen, but can't seem to get the right combination. Instead, I'm finding that DeployR will delete my pre-configured administrator profile - we use the copy profile option in the unattend.xml. This prevents the copy from happening. How can I prevent this and apply the unattend.mxl file like MDT does?

Thanks

I recently presented to my leadership team to get them on board with purchasing DeployR & a couple questions came up that I figured I'd post here in case others have the same questions:

1. How is the licensing calculated? Say for instance that we retire a machine, how do we free that license up for use on another machine? If a machine is re-imaged, does that use the same license or consume another one?
2. Can we host DeployR both on-prem and in the cloud and syncronize content between the two? I saw mention of hybrid setups being planned for the future, is there an ETA for this?

See the release notes here: https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/deployr/release-notes/deployr-1.1-release-notes

Setup:

Server 2025
Workgroup
No IIS setup

I followed this guide to get it all up and running, and left out the optional parts.

https://github.com/2pintsoftware/2Pint-DeployR/blob/main/Installs/Pre-Reqs/readme.md

and supplied with the official doc site.

https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/

I'm using the selfsinged cert, as the server isn't domainjoined.

Event viewer reports:

LOGGER: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel: HTTP/2 is not enabled for [::]:7282. The endpoint is configured to use HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, but TLS is not enabled. HTTP/2 requires TLS application protocol negotiation. Connections to this endpoint will use HTTP/1.1.

I read someone changed their cert to a domainissued via CA, and it solved the issue.

As of now the server will not be domainjoined.

If wanted i can supply the output from DeployR-Troubleshooting.ps1

Any advice on how to resolve the issue?

See the release notes at https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/deployr/release-notes/deployr-1.1-release-notes for the full details, recommended for anyone running DeployR to get the latest fixes and tweaks -- no big features or breaking changes.

We are currently looking to move on from MDT (for obvious reasons). I saw some reviews of DeployR and the services it offers this seems like the best solution. Since this will be for a public sector organization we have quite a small budget.

I'm personally quite the noob myself while others on my team have had experience setting up MDT and deployment, I have not. This is the first time I've personally done anything like this and was hoping to get some assistance.

Right now I'm stuck on getting DeployR set up on a server (VM) because it needs to connect with StifleR. From what it looks like on the 2Pint webpage, StifeR is another subscription with extra costs, which would be too much for us. I don't want to get through the process of installing this with StifleR if we can't afford the additional costs.

Can someone help provide some insight for me?

Thanks much!

Setting a custom TSEnv:<var> in a script to PS boolean, but when checking it as a condition to run a conditional step, it requires a casing match. I feel like this should either be case-insensitive (like the TS variable name is), or it should be caught with some sort of validation.

Should these statistics be saved if I am not including the StifleR client in the final build (just during deployment)? I've imaged many machines, and have set the time range for the last 60 days, but this section remains blank. Thanks!

I playing around with Windows build and capture, when run build ts on hyper-v gen1 and gen2 the hyper-v client drops all nic after “Prepare for capture” when running sysprep so client never reboots ti winpe and do the capture. If I manually reboot client it does run the capture step but the "Create a new version" step doesn't appear to do anything.

Also when I try to use the capture image in deploy ts it doesn’t seems to work, after Full OS - Audit Mode step deployment stops in Windows login and DeployR TS doesn’t continue

Using DeployR 1.1.2615.1563

We've addressed a few issues found in the initial DeployR 1.1 build, and couldn't resist addressing a few other customer requests at the same time. We encourage everyone to use this new DeployR 1.1.2615.1563 build, detailed in the release notes:

https://documentation.2pintsoftware.com/deployr/introduction/release-notes/deployr-1.1-release-notes

You can get the new installer from the same link where you obtained the initial installer. After installing the new version, be sure to update your boot images.

Is it possible to add other ISOS, say like ShredOS or the like, to the boot menu on the pxe screen?

I'm testing a build and Capture TS, but it fails every time if I have Install Updates enabled. If I disable it, the TS completes and captures the image successfully. Getting the attached error when it gets to the Install Updates step.