Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Available!

MDT 2010 was finally released today.

After lots of months, bugs fixed, new improvements and a lot of users feedback reading, the final version of MDT 2010 was released for everyone.

This new MDT 2010 makes it possible to deploy the new Windows 7 and Windows 2008 using the usual litetouch and zerotouch deployment features.

More then a tool, MDT is a complete framework that permits you to plan Windows deployment from one point to another with a lot of documentation to help you.

So here’s the link for downloading:

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

2 New Webcasts from Richard Smith

Richard Smith, a worker at Microsoft Consulting Services, just launched 2 new webcasts about deployment, at DeploymentForum.com

On the firts webcast, the focus goes to building and deploying images using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 (MDT 2008) on a Lite Touch Installation (LTI) scenario:

http://www.deploymentforum.com/Library/Webcasts/Player/tabid/162/VideoId/26/Using-MDT-2008-For-Lite-Touch-Installation.aspx

The second one it’s about using MDT 2008 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007) for a Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) scenario:

http://www.deploymentforum.com/Library/Webcasts/Player/tabid/162/VideoId/27/Using-MDT-2008-And-SCCM-2007-For-Zero-Touch-Installation.aspx

Like allways with the Richard Smith’s quality presentations.

All this and more can be found on: www.deploymentforum.com

New Richard Smith LTI Walkthrough

Here it is a new MDT LTI walkthrough video from Richard Smith.

On this video Richard talks and explains the following topics:

Add operating systems, applications, drivers and packages to MDT

Configure Office 2007 into the build process

Create a MDT Lite Touch task sequence 

Setup a lab based deployment point

Create a customised build to a reference computer

Capture the reference computer as a customised WIM

Add the customised WIM back into MDT for deployment

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