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MDT 2012 New Feature: Item Sorting

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For those of you who have already installed MDT 2012 RC1, you might notice that there is a new behavior in Deployment Workbench:  It will keep the list of items (applications, drivers, OS packages, task sequences) in alphabetical order.

Now when you first install MDT 2012 RC1, you might notice that the items aren’t sorted right away – you have to change something in the folder first.  As soon as you do (e.g. add an item, rename an item), the items in that folder will be sorted.

Keeping the list of folders sorted is a much bigger challenge, so at this point they will still show up in the order that they were added. That’s something we will have to look at again in a future version.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    We did at least add a "select multiple" option when adding items to bundles, so hopefully that makes it a little easier.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Sorry, there's no way to disable the sorting.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I was glad we could get to it :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I've upgraded to MDT 2012 and just noticed the Applications are in alphabetical order for one of my deployment shares. I'm in the process of testing the applications to see if they still install in the correct order or if they will now install in alphabetical order as well. If so, this is a major issue. As a lot of the application we install have a certain order. Do you know if the applications will install in alphabetical order now?

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2012
    Mike, I requested this feature in one of the surveys. Thank you for adding it!

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2012
    Well that doesn't work. I have my list of drivers by model number, I added a new folder and they are all still in the same order I added them in.

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2012
    Is there anyway of switching this back to the order that the apps were added?  Thanks

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2012
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2012
    Is there any workaround for forcing a selected application to appear last in the list or at least force it to install last? Our problem is if this specific application is selected for installation as an optional application, then it must be installed last from that list. Otherwise problems occur so I am hoping there is some workaround to force an app to install last...

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2012
    Try adding application GUID in sequence, in the Rules (or in Customsettings.ini file)as mentioned below. Applications1={93e2863d-aa7d-4bfc-a659-d98e2885511a} Applications2={2a5ef59a-0cd9-419c-b1d1-bb62d5b2ae17} Applications3={43a07d9f-e51b-4c74-8cf8-3b580b007725} Applications4={8740923d-4cbe-4334-9db6-c5a8645c1947} Applications5={c37d6731-60a3-4c53-b45d-2e1e22e98ba1}

  • Anonymous
    April 17, 2013
    This seems like a no brainer to me.  yet, the wizard pages still fail to sort anything.  Specially problematic if using selectable roles tweak which pull from the db.  I know there are a few workarounds out there, including a sorting script you've written but it is not dynamic/realtime.  Why hasn't this been added as a core functionality of MDT?