Accessing the Task Sequence Environment in ConfigMgr

I had a question at CMCE Switzerland about how to get acces to the SMSTS variables through Powerhell, so here it is:

In either a script or at a Powershell command window, create a ComObject:

$tsenv = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment

you can use this to access and set Task Sequence variables:

$tsenv.Value(“OSDComputerName”)

will return the value of the OSDComputerName action variable

$tsenv.Value(“SMSTSErrorDialogTimeout”) = 0

sets the timeout on the error message box to something like 6 years (in seconds)

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