Actually, there’s more to it and not necessarily due to out of date plugins. 
Google changed its criteria recently on the “safeness” of downloadable scripts 
– which myITforum has supplied for the last 15 years for IT folks . A lot of 
those proxy protector sites pull information from Google to update their own 
service. Until Google updates, the won’t update. So the issue is with Google. 
We’re actively working on it, but, Niall, you might also check to ensure you 
fit Google’s criteria.



From: Niall Brady
Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 5:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] persistent Pre-TS action in WinPE?


no problem Todd, glad to have helped finally,
as regards windows-noob being blocked or comprimised, it's a farce, it all 
stems from myitforum.com having had wordpress plugins that were out of date, as 
a result that site (myitforum) got blacklisted, and in turn as i had 11 links 
back to myitforum.com, amazingly windows-noob.com got blacklisted. yes you read 
it right, windows-noob was blacklisted because of out of date plugins on 
myitforum.com.
sadly, those proxy protector sites that blacklisted windows-noob aren't that 
clever at updating their cached results, so even though i removed the links 
about two weeks ago, my site still remains blacklisted, even at the company i 
work for.
i'm really not impressed by that at all. :(

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Miller, Todd <[email protected]> wrote:
Niall --- thank you very much for this tip.  I have all kinds of other ideas on 
how to use this.  Your post at www.windows-noob.com was easy to follow and 
worked great.  I got it right on the first try! which is great because updating 
the WinPE boot image is quite a task to have to iterate with 
tweaks/changes/typos over and over.
 
In my opinion Microsoft’s field guide for OSD 802.1x implementation should be 
updated to include this method to re-establish an 802.1x connection during 
WinPE phases.
 
 
It looks like I will have to neither retire early nor take a long vacation ☺
 
 
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Niall Brady
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 11:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] persistent Pre-TS action in WinPE?
 
Have a look at checkfornetwork and storage  on windows noob, it runs before sny 
prestarts via a reg hack


Sent from my phone, please excuse any typo's as a result.
 

On 02 Dec 2015, at 18:21, Miller, Todd <[email protected]> wrote:
I am interested in running a pre-TaskSequence routine every time my clients 
boot into WinPE during a task sequence.   What is the best way to accomplish 
this?  I’m not talking about a pre-execution hook which only runs on first 
WinPE boot.
 
I have added a command to unattend.xml on the WinPE image and it works great 
for the first boot onto the WinPE OS, but when the TS engine stages the Boot 
Image onto the disk for subsequent PE reboots, it overrides that function with 
its own WinPEUnattend.xml
 
Is there a way for me to insert anything in front of the Task Sequence engine 
to run before the Task sequence takes over?
 
I want to use this to attach to our 802.1x network, but it could be used to 
re-establish DART or any of number of things.
 
Of course I can insert items in the task sequence after every “Reboot” item to 
re-establish the network, but it would be much better if I could just make that 
happen at every reboot.  Putting those in the TS itself sub-optimal since there 
is a long delay at each TS startup if the network is not available.  Is there 
any way to insert my own code into the WinPE start for all the staged PE 
reboots?
 
I have started re-look at OSDInjection.xml as I used that previously to write a 
custom smsts.ini file to my WinPE boot images.  It doesn’t appear that 
winpeshl.ini is listed in OSDInjection.xml so some other process is creating 
that file?  I think my best hope is to use this process to inject the necessary 
802.1x files into the WINPE image using the standard means for extra files and 
then use osdinjection.xml to figure out how to modify the WinPE startup 
process.  Just not sure which ini file I need to inject/modify that can survive 
both the WinPE build process and the TS WinPE staging process.  I think the 
console even overwrites the WinPESHL.ini file if I use OSDInjection.xml to 
write a custom one.  Ugh!
 
 
I really could use a way to inject a network startup process into the WinPE 
boot process  - not only to establish 802.1x connections but I think others 
could use it to establish VPN early in the WinPE boot process as well.
 
 
 
(Please --- I’m not interested in bypassing 802.1x  in other obvious ways like 
having build benches with 802.1x disabled ports or using MAC whitelisted 
devices to bypass 802.1x auth…  I know about those options  and am using them 
already.  We want to get away from whitelisted USB Ethernet adapters for 
deskside re-deploys) 
 

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