How to use a custom Property in MDT for a script

Question

I'm trying to deploy a application through a Powershell script that needs to have an ID attached that is corresponding with a certain group. Now I created a custom Property in my customsettings.ini/Rules like Property=ProgID, but it seems I can't figure out how to pass this on to a script for example when I create a new application and use %SCRIPTROOT%/subfolder/programsetup.exe -parameter:ProgID. I've use %ProgID%, $TSvar:ProgID, $env:ProgID but I must be missing something or my Google-fu is just bad, what do I use? TIA

Answer 1

Hi, @MartinWierenga

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

To use a custom property in MDT for a script, we may try to add the custom property to the CustomSettings.ini file and then reference it in a PowerShell script using the $tsenv variable. For example, if we added the following line to the CustomSettings.ini file:

ProgID=1234

We can reference this property in a PowerShell script using $tsenv:ProgID. For example:

$ProgID = $tsenv:ProgID
& "$env:SCRIPTROOT\subfolder\programsetup.exe" -parameter:$ProgID

In this example, the ProgID custom property is stored in the $ProgID variable and passed as a parameter to the programsetup.exe script using the -parameter switch.

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