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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010: The Next Generation

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010: The Next Generation . Michael Niehaus Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft Corporation Session Code: CLI307. Introducing MDT 2010. MDT 2010 is a significant upgrade from MDT 2008 Still supports Windows XP and above Drops support for SMS 2003

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010: The Next Generation

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  1. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010: The Next Generation Michael Niehaus Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft Corporation Session Code: CLI307

  2. Introducing MDT 2010 • MDT 2010 is a significant upgrade from MDT 2008 • Still supports Windows XP and above • Drops support for SMS 2003 • MDT 2010 adds full support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 and latest deployment tools: • Windows Automated Installation Kit 2.0 • Windows PE 3.0 • New way to construct an image • USMT 4.0 • New hard-link and offline migration capabilities • Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool • Replaces several previous tools, adds new enumeration capabilities • MDT 2010 makes these changes transparent

  3. Survey • How many of you are already using MDT 2010? • Using Lite Touch? • Using ConfigMgr? • How would you describe deploying with MDT 2010? • Easy? • Fun? • Exciting? • How many plan to deploy Windows 7 in the next six months? In the next year?

  4. MDT 2010 Focus Areas • Improve administrative processes • Support more than one user • New scenarios with more flexibility • Enhanced automation capabilities • Improved extensibility for customers and partners • A platform to build on • Improve diagnostics, logging, errors, recovery • Support deployment to any disk or partition • New features • Support for the ConfigMgr R2 and SP2 releases • Integrate Windows 7 enhancements • Script and task sequence improvements

  5. Quiz #1 • How many developers worked on MDT 2010? • A. Two • B. Four • C. Eight • D. Twelve • Correct answer: B. • The four developers were Keith Garner, Eric Jones, Tim Mintner and myself • Mary Anne Blake and Rajat Kumar are our program managers • Lex Liao is our test manager • Nine contractors working on testing, a few on documentation

  6. MDT 2010 Focus Areas • Improve administrative processes • Support more than one user • New scenarios with more flexibility • Folders everywhere • Drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, cut-and-paste support • Expanded scenarios • Local, network, standalone DFS • Multiple deployment shares, multiple users • Copy between deployment points • Replication • Create “linked deployment shares” for replication • Define selection profiles to control what is copied, as well as whether to merge or replace • New database capabilities • Additional columns • Dynamic column display

  7. demo Deployment Workbench Overview Michael Niehaus Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft Corporation

  8. MDT 2010 Focus Areas • Enhanced automation capabilities • Improved extensibility for customers and partners • A platform to build on • Complete PowerShell support • Anything you can do from the UI can be scripted • Drive provider for enumerating folders, items, and properties • Cmdlets to help with importing content, generating boot images, etc. • Ideal for hydration, automated customization, and reporting • Can be leveraged for “alternative” UIs • We don’t plan to deliver any

  9. demo PowerShell Capabilities Michael Niehaus Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft Corporation

  10. Quiz #2 • How much code is in MDT 2010 Deployment Workbench? • A. 5k lines C# • B. 10k lines C# • C. 70k lines C# • D. 150k lines C# • Correct answer: C. • The Deployment Workbench (including wizards and task sequence editor) and PowerShell provider are all written in C# • Less than 100 lines of C++

  11. MDT 2010 Focus Areas • Improve diagnostics, logging, recovery • Support deployment to any disk or partition • New features • Improved diagnostics and logging • More specific errors (instead of just success or failure) • Real-time logging directly to a network share • Log collecting • Better network retry logic • Formatting and structure improvements • Common functionality will be moved into library scripts • Increase modularity (to help us with testing) • Improve readability (to help you follow the logic)

  12. MDT 2010 Focus Areas • Improve diagnostics, logging, errors, recovery • Support deployment to any disk or partition • New features • Refresh BitLocker-encrypted machines • Without decrypting when deploying Windows 7 • Deploy to any disk or partition • Windows Vista or later • Security improvements • Variable obfuscation • Wizard improvements • No more command windows (with F8 support)

  13. demo Task Sequence and Script Improvements

  14. Quiz #3 • How many lines of VBScript are in MDT 2010? • A. 5k lines VBScript • B. 15k lines VBScript • C. 30k lines VBScript • D. 45k lines VBScript • Correct answer: C. • The largest set of VBScripts we have ever seen  • Still no PowerShell being used during the deployment itself • The ZTIUtility.vbs script is over 3500 lines itself

  15. MDT 2010 Focus Areas • Support for the ConfigMgr R2 and SP2 releases • Integrate Windows 7 enhancements • Script, wizard, and task sequence improvements • USMT 4.0 hard-link support • All previously-discussed script enhancements • VARIABLES.DAT no longer used • General-purpose wizard capability • Replaces “Unknown Computer” wizard

  16. demo ConfigMgr Improvements

  17. Next Steps • Download MDT 2010! • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx • Participate in the MDT community • TechNet Forums • MSSMS and MDTOSD mailing lists hosted by http://www.myitforum.com • Blogs such as http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus and http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys • Provide feedback • Look for the feedback link on http://connect.microsoft.com • E-mail me directly at mniehaus@microsoft.com

  18. question & answer

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