MDT 2008 – Upgrading

I’ve downloaded MDT 2008 last Thrusday, and I wanted to test it right way.

But, I had some Task Sequences and some rules for CustomSettings.ini and Bootstrap.ini already made, so, does this still work after upgrading?

And the answer is a redundante and heavy YES!

After upgrading all tasks and rules were working correctly, and the only pass needed is:

- Open Deployment Workbench
- Right-click Distribution Share
- Select “Upgrade Distribution Share”

The Distribution Share is automatically updated with the new scripts and everything works just nice!

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008: Now Available

Microsoft makes available a new version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

MDT 2008 extends existing functionality to deploy Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 2008 for both LTI and ZTI deployments.

This new version also support Windows AIK 1.1.

You can download it at:
Microsoft Download Center

Vista Unattended – KB929399-v2 Deployment Issues

At my job, we should start to deploy Windows Vista to agencies and central branchs next year, and a lot of work must be done.
The redesigned BDD (now known as Microsoft Depoloyment), the redesigned RIS (now known as Windows Deployment Services(WDS)) and Windows Automatic Installation Kit (WAIK), give a lot of new tools and deployment methods that need some comprehensive reading.

So…last week I started to take a more deep look at the Windows Vista Deployment.
After creating a simple answer file, that by the way has changed name and type (unattend.txt/Unattended.xml), I started looking to the new feature that makes possible to install OS hotfixes (system updates and security updates) in a very simple way.
After making some tests with just a couple of hotifxes, I’ve run Windows Update and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 on a reference machine and downloaded all the updates. I’ve then applied the hotfixes via Deployment Workbench (WAIK) and started deploying the image using WDS.

On the Install Update Passe I found an error that was killing the unattended installation:

Setup failed applying image \\S-W2K8WDS-V01\Distribution$\OperationSystems\Windows Vista Ent\Sources\install.wim, rc = 31
ZTI ERROR – Non-zero return code by LTIApply, rc = 31
Non-zero return code executing command “X:\Deploy\Tools\X86\TsmBootstrap.exe” /env:SAStartm, rc = -2147467259

This is a very very generic error, with no reference about what has failed in all log files you can fin, and after a while you will feel lost!
In  my case I had applied 39 hotfixes…
So to understand where the error was, I had to start deploying the hotfixes almost one-by-one to figure out where the bad file was.

After a lot of time I’ve found that the hotfix giving the problem was WindowsMedia11-KB929399-v2-x86-INTL.exe(a Windows Media Player 11 SDK Update).

I’ve Googled a little and found this:
http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_166236/mpage_1/tm.htm#167364

I’ve not tested it yet!