MDT 2013 - Concatenate command lines in an application?

Question

Total noob to MDT. Have a few years experience with SCCM. My ongoing project is to create bootable media (DVD's only, no USB allowed...) to rebuild seats not attached to our network.
I know one can concatenate command lines in SCCM task sequence steps... wondering if I can do so in applications too?
Example:
Create application BlahBlah
Dir structure is:
\BlahBlah
\BlahBlah\A
\BlahBlah\B
The application will point to \BlahBlah as the source dir
In the application command line, will this command work?
"xcopy .\A\*.* c:\temp\BlahBlahA /E /Y & xcopy .\B\*.* c:\temp\BlahBlahB /E /Y"
TIA,
Lang

Answer 1

It depends on what your working directory is set to
But I'd recommend using a script to handle installing applications, copying files, etc. You can then do far more advanced functions with the ability to log as well.
For instance here's a script I wrote to install Firefox and copy over configuration files. It's one script that handles both x86 and x64 architectures.
<job id="Install-MozillaFirefox">
<script language="VBScript" src="..\..\scripts\ZTIUtility.vbs"/>
<script language="VBScript">
'// Purpose: Used to install Flash Player
'// Usage: cscript Install-MozillaFirefox.wsf [/debug:true]
'// Version: 1.0 - September 29, 2014
'// Version: 1.1 - February 6, 2015 - Corrected architecture detection
'// Global constant and variable declarations
Option Explicit
Dim iRetVal
'// End declarations
'// Main routine
On Error Resume Next
iRetVal = ZTIProcess
ProcessResults iRetVal
On Error Goto 0
'// Function: ZTIProcess()
'// Input: None
'// Return: Success - 0
'// Failure - non-zero
'// Purpose: Perform main ZTI processing
Function ZTIProcess()
oLogging.CreateEntry "Install-MozillaFirefox: Starting Mozilla Firefox installation", LogTypeInfo
' Disable Zone Checks
oEnv("SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS") = 1
' Install Mozilla Firefox
iRetVal = oUtility.RunWithHeartbeat(oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\Setup.exe -ms")
if (iRetVal = 0) or (iRetVal = 3010) then
ZTIProcess = Success
Else
ZTIProcess = Failure
oLogging.CreateEntry "Install-MozillaFirefox: Error installing Application Plugin. Check the log " & oUtility.LocalRootPath & "\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS\Install-MozillaFirefox-Plugin-App.log", LogTypeWarning
End If
' Configure Mozilla Firefox
If oEnvironment.Item("Architecture") = "X86" then
oLogging.CreateEntry oUtility.ScriptName & ": Configuring for 32bit OS", LogTypeInfo
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\override.ini", oENV("ProgramFiles") & "\Mozilla Firefox\", True
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\mozilla.cfg", oENV("ProgramFiles") & "\Mozilla Firefox\", True
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\local-settings.js", oENV("ProgramFiles") & "\Mozilla Firefox\Defaults\Pref\", True
Else
oLogging.CreateEntry oUtility.ScriptName & ": Configuring for 64bit OS", LogTypeInfo
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\override.ini", oENV("ProgramFiles(x86)") & "\Mozilla Firefox\", True
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\mozilla.cfg", oENV("ProgramFiles(x86)") & "\Mozilla Firefox\", True
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\Installer\local-settings.js", oENV("ProgramFiles(x86)") & "\Mozilla Firefox\Defaults\Pref\", True
End If
' Enable Zone Checks
oEnv.Remove("SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS")
oLogging.CreateEntry "Install-MozillaFirefox: Return code from command = " & iRetVal, LogTypeInfo
oLogging.CreateEntry "Install-MozillaFirefox: Finished Mozilla Firefox installation", LogTypeInfo
End Function
</script>
</job>
You can then use variables. Your code to copy files could be something like
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\A\*.*", oENV("SystemDrive") & "\temp\BlahBlahA", True
oFSO.CopyFile oUtility.ScriptDir & "\B\*.*", oENV("SystemDrive") & "\temp\BlahBlahB", True
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