How To: Launch Provisioning on a Client in Windows

Problem

In some situations it may be desirable to initiate a Provisioning task client side, without booting into WinPE.

Example: Launching a deploy profile Provisioning template.

Steps

• Create a directory on the client to contain the ldprovision.exe
  • C:\ldprovision
• Download/copy ldprovision.exe to the client machine.
  • Example location on Core: "C:\Program Files\LANDesk\ManagementSuite\ldlogon\provisioning\windows\ldProvision.exe"
  • Example destination on client: C:\ldprovision\ldProvision.exe
• Launch ldProvision.exe as the Local System Account
  • How to open a command prompt running as Microsoft's "Local System" account
• ldProvision.exe will begin downloading prerequisites
• When ldProvision.exe is ran as the Local System Account, it will present the Provisioning GUI which allows users to authenticate to the Core, and select templates.

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Note: If ldProvision.exe is ran as any account other than Local System, it will present a command line interface.

Though this interface will allow users to authenticate to the core in the same manner as the GUI, its menu is not navigatable, as the directional keys/arrows act as escape commands.

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