Tag: MDT 2012

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Update 1

MDT is a free tool provided by Microsoft that will help you deploy Windows Operating Systems. Key changes in the new version are:

  • Added support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
  • Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CTP: Added support in MDT for deploying Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 CTP, while supporting all new Configuration Manager functionality (offline BitLocker, UEFI, and Assessment and Deployment Kit).
  • Support for DaRT 8 Beta: Updated MDT to support DaRT 8 for Windows 8 deployments, while continuing to support DaRT 7 for Windows 7 deployments. Added DaRT support for Configuration Manager scenarios.
  • New “Build Your Own Pages” User-Driven Installation (UDI) feature: Enhanced the UDI wizard and designer to enable IT pros to design their own wizard pages with little effort.
  • New System Center 2012 – Orchestrator support: Provided the ability to add steps into an OS deployment task sequence to execute Orchestrator runbooks as part of the deployment process.
  • Other improvements: Added support for Windows PowerShell 3.0, reworked Roles and Features installation logic for Windows 8, improved “boot from VHD” deployment scenarios, and added support for Configuration Manager monitoring.

Download the tool and its documentation from here.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is RTM

Microsoft release one of their best free tools. With MDT the deployment of operating systems becomes so easy. If you haven’t tried it so for I highly recommend it. Download it from the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25175

Key changes from the previous release are:

  • Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 365.
  • An enhanced user-Driven Installation (UDI) deployment method that utilizes System Center Configuration Manager 2012. UDI lets end users initiate and customize an OS deployment on their PCs—via an easy-to-use wizard.
  • Ease Lite Touch installation through integration with Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).
  • This release provides support for deploying Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a lab environment.

Microsoft Solution Accelerators for the Datacenter and Private Cloud Module 2 Part 1

This is Session 1 of Module 2 from Microsoft Solution Accelerators for the Datacenter and Private Cloud series. This video focuses on integration of MDT 2012 with the Cloud. Presenter is Michael Niehaus. Session is level 100. Click on the link and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh913776

Deployment Part 5

This is the last Session 5 from Deployment day on Tech Days 2012 conference in Belgium. Presenter is again Rhonda Layfield. The Session covers integration between MDT and System Center Configuration Manager. The session is Level 300 according to me. Click on the link below and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh852094

Deployment Part 4

This is Session 4 from Deployment day on Tech Days 2012 conference in Belgium. Presenter is again Rhonda Layfield. The Session covers integration between MDT and System Center Configuration Manager. The session is Level 300 according to me. Click on the link below and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh867821