The ISDTool is a standalone tool that enables you to perform following tasks in WinPE and MDT environments:Download the ISDTool 32-bit or 64-bit from ZENworks Download page (ZENworks > Common Tasks > Download ZENworks Tools) under Imaging Tools.
The following are the available commands for all modes:
ISDTool [d]: Dumps the image safe data.
ISDTool [cleandisk] <disk index>: Clears the MBR table (sector 0) of the disk (Prepares the disk for installation).
ISDTool [cleandisk] <disk index> <startsector> <count>: Cleans [count] sectors in the disk starting from [startsector]
ISDTool [DNSHostname] <host_name>: Sets the host name in the image safe data.
ISDTool [setJustImageFlag]: Sets the JustImaged flag in the image safe data.
ISDTool [b] <path_to_file>: Backup the image safe data to the specified file path. <path_to_file> is an optional field.
ISDTool [r] <path_to_file>: Restores the image safe data to the specified file path. <path_to_file> is an optional field.
If you want to update any error messages to the server while performing the WinPE Third-party imaging tasks, use the following commands:
ISDTool [w] <taskstate> <taskretcode>: Writes task state and task return code to the image safe data.
<taskstate>: Specify <taskstate> as 4 to report PREBOOT_STATE_ERROR.
<taskReturnCode>: The return code for the WinPE tasks. Any custom task return codes for preboot actions in WinPE can be assigned.
The following are the available commands for MDT-WinPE mode or full Windows mode:
ISDTool [mdt] <taskstate> <taskReturnCode> [rebootoff]: Sends MDT task state and task return code to ZENworks Server.
<taskstate>: Specify <taskstate> as 4 to report PREBOOT_STATE_ERROR.
<taskReturnCode>: The return code for the MDT Deployment task. Any custom task return codes for MDT Deployment can be assigned.
[rebootoff]: This is an optional parameter. When specified, the device will not reboot. If [rebootoff] is not specified, by default, after sending the status for the final task, the device will reboot.
ISDTool [mdt] [e] "error message": Use this command to send “error messages” from MDT task sequence to ZENworks server.
ISDTool [mdt] [s] [success message]: Use this command to send “success messages” from MDT task sequence to ZENworks server.
NOTE:Only the English language is supported for status messages.