RunAsynchronous

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista

RunAsynchronous specifies one or more commands to run during the auditUser configuration pass or specialize configuration pass.

To run services or commands that can start at the same time, use asynchronous commands. To run commands that need to finish before other commands can start, use RunSynchronous instead.

RunAsynchronous commands run in the user context in the auditUser configuration pass and in the system context in the specialize configuration pass.

Child Elements

RunAsynchronousCommand

Specifies the path, the order, and the credentials of the command to run asynchronously.

This string type does not support empty elements. Do not create an empty value for this setting.

Valid Configuration Passes

auditUser

specialize

Parent Hierarchy

Microsoft-Windows-Deployment | RunAsynchronous

Applies To

For the list of the supported Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-Deployment.

XML Example

The following XML output shows how to set asynchronous commands.

<RunAsynchronous>
   <RunAsynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
      <Credentials>
         <Domain>MyDomain</Domain>
         <Password>MyPassword</Password>
         <Username>MyUsername</Username>
      </Credentials>
      <Description>AsynchCommand1</Description>
      <Order>1</Order>
      <Path>\\network\server\share\filename</Path>
   </RunAsynchronousCommand>
   <RunAsynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
      <Credentials>
         <Domain>MyDomain</Domain>
         <Password>MyPassword</Password>
         <Username>MyUsername</Username>
      </Credentials>
      <Description>AsynchCommand2</Description>
      <Order>2</Order>
      <Path>\\network\server\share\filename</Path>
   </RunAsynchronousCommand>
</RunAsynchronous>

See Also

Concepts

Microsoft-Windows-Deployment
RunSynchronous