Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Information on how to manage drivers from multiple vendors in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.
Micrososft Deployment Toolkit Update 1 has been released. I talk about some new features that have helped me out and provided the download link.
Information on customizing the bootstrap.ini file in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 to handle multiple deployment shares.
An example of a customized CustomSettings.ini file in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010. Information on automating the LTI deployment.
With a new year comes new images for my MDT servers. At TechDays in Ottawa, I presented the MDT session in the client track on Day 1. Afterwards, I had some great discussions with a few people from major Canadian government offices. One of my challenges has been how to add extra software to an [...]
The new version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT 2010) has been released today. MDT is the recommended toolset to automate server and desktop deployments. Having used it for about 2 years I find it the best tool for deploying new Windows computers. Every computer which enters into service in the library system has its [...]
I was getting caught up on some blog reading over my lunch hour and noticed a new post by the Deployment Guys on their blog. If you didn’t know, with Windows 7, you can now boot from VHD; there is even a trick to make Windows Vista boot from VHD. Booting loads the VHD and [...]
The MDT 2010 Beta is now available on the Microsoft Connect site as I saw on the Deployment Toolkit Team Blog . This is the next version of the Microsoft Deployment toolkit, which is an accelerator for both OS and application deployments. What’s New? Support for deploying Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition [...]
I was working today on making my memory stick bootable so I could role out new images to the computers in the remote branches where I don’t have deployment servers. I did some searching and came across these instructions which are better than the instructions I posted couple of months back on making a USB [...]
Another question which came up was in regards to licensing. How would one who has different license keys for their office installation use the MDT tool. Provided they were all the same version of Office (2007) just bought at different times, the easiest thing to do would be to install Office 2007 without specifying a [...]