Introduction to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
2012
Howard Carter – Senior Consultant
Hcarter@microsoft.com
Reggie Gibson – Consultant
Reggie.Gibson@microsoft.com
Power Point
Review the MDT 2012 Timeline
What’s been removed
Discuss new Lite-Touch Features
Discuss new Zero-Touch Features
Discuss new User Driven Installation (UDI) features
Demos!
Deployment Monitoring
DaRT integration with MDT
WinRE integration with MDT (using ADK)
UDI Designer
Who has started deploying Windows 7?
Finished?
Do you have one/few/many “standard images”?
Who is using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit today?
Who is using Configuration Manager today?
What tools are you using to build and deploy images?
Have you downloaded the Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
Schedule
MDT 2012
Beta 1
MDT 2012
Beta 2
MDT 2012 MDT 2012
RC 1
RTW
• June 2011
• November
2011
• February
2012
• Expected in
H1 2012
MDT 2012 RC 1 with Windows 8 Consumer Preview
MDT 2012 RTW after System Center 2012 GA
Removed Support for the Following:
SCCM 2012 Beta, RC1
SCCM 2007 R2, R1
Installation of Server 2003
Installation of Windows Vista
Installation of Windows XP
WDS servers on 2003
OEM Task Sequences
Upgrade Paths
MDT 2010 Update 1
MDT 2010 RTW
MDT 2008 Update 1
New Features
Something for all MDT customers, regardless of scenario:
Lite Touch
Installation
Zero
Touch
Installation
UserDriven
Installation
Simple upgrade process, as with previous versions
New deployment support:
Deploy to VHD
Deployment to UEFI computers
Monitoring
New Integrations:
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT)
Security Compliance Manager
Windows Recovery Environment
PowerShell in the task sequence
Windows 8 and ADK support
Improved System Center-style client wizards
Many behind-the-scenes improvements:
Partitioning
User state migration
Progress displays
Improved cleanup logic
Support for Configuration Manager 2012
Integration with new console
Install applications with new application model
Configure user-device affinity
New pre-start command support
Continued support for Configuration Manager 2007
Support for Configuration Manager 2012
New extensible UDI Designer and Wizard:
Install applications with new application model
Configure user-device affinity
Enable BitLocker
New “replace” scenario
Localization capability
SDK documentation
Session Objective(s):
Review MDT 2012 Timeline
Explore MDT 2012 New Features
MDT 2012 is for the System Center 2012 wave
MDT 2012 gets us ready for the Windows 8 wave
Speaker Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/
Email: Hcarter@microsoft.com & Reggie.Gibson@microsoft.com
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