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Unleash the power of MDT 2010
Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

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SESSION AGENDA
 Introducing MDT 2010
 MDT 2010 is a significant upgrade from MDT 2008
 MDT 2010 adds full support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008
 What’s new in MDT 2010 Update 1
 Support for Office 2010
 Support for UDI Deployments for SCCM 2007 R2
 Bug Fixes and Improvements for LTI and ZTI deployments.
 MDT 2010 Focus Areas
 Deployment Workbench Architecture Enhancements
 PowerShell Capabilities
 Task Sequence and Script Enhancements
 Configuration Manager Improvements

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Introducing MDT2010
 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

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what’s New in MDT2010 Update 1
The new features in MDT 2010 Update1 Include the following:
 Support for Microsoft Office 2010
 Support for User Driven Installation (UDI) deployments for Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
 Support for the Prestaged Media feature in System Center Configuration
Manager 2007 R3.
 Bug fixes and improvements for Lite Touch Installation (LTI) deployments.
 Bug fixes and improvements for Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) deployments.

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what’s New in MDT2010 Update 1
Support for Upgrading from previous versions of MDT and BDD
 MDT 2010 Update 1 supports upgrading from the following versions of
MDT and Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD):
 MDT 2010 RTW
 MDT 2008 Update 1
 BDD 2007 Update 2
Note: Create a backup of the existing MDT or BDD infrastructure before attempting an upgrade.
Note: MDT 2010 Update 1 does not support upgrading from MDT 2010 Update 1 beta to
MDT 2010 Update 1 RTM.

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MDT 2010 Focus Areas
Deployment Workbench
Architecture Enhancements
PowerShell Capabilities
Task Sequence and Script
Enhancements
Configuration Manager
Improvements

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DEMO: Deployment Workbench and PowerShell
Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

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Deployment Workbench and PowerShell
Summary
 Simple upgrade process
 Folders everywhere
 Deployment points anywhere
 PowerShell throughout
 Automate replication, media generation
 Publish boot WIMs to WDS
 Sort folders and items

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DEMO: Task Sequence and Scripts
Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

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Task Sequence and Scripts
Summary
 Restructured scripts, better error handling
 Dynamic logging directly to the network
 New templates
 Calling stored procedures and web services
 Customizing wizards
 http://www.codeplex.com/MDTWizardEditor

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DEMO: ConfigMgr SP2 and MDT 2010
Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

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ConfigMgr SP2 and MDT 2010
Summary
 Create task sequence wizard enhancements
 Automated USMT 4.0 hard-link migration
 Basic wizard integration

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MDT 2010
Opportunities for customization
• Modify the wizards we provide
Wizards • Add additional panes
• Create your own scripts that leverage the framework
Scripts • Modify the scripts we provide
• Edit CustomSettings.ini and Bootstrap.ini
Rules • Query databases, web services
• Add additional steps
Task sequences • Modify existing steps, conditions

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MDT 2010
Changes may affect existing customizations
• Rework of scripts that use XML configuration files
Wizards • Changes to the wizard templates to support new capabilities
• Structural changes to all scripts
Scripts • New library files for data access, configuration file access
Rules • Changes for secure web services, database enhancements
Task • No significant changes (yet)
sequences

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For More Information
 http://www.microsoft.com/mdt
 Pre-built customizations available on the web:
 http://mdtcustomizations.codeplex.com
 http://www.deployvista.com
 http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys
 http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jscheffelmaer
 http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus
 Join BangaloreITPro User Group
 http://bitpro.in

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Kaliyan_selvaraj@dell.com │ http://bitpro.in/blogs/kaliyans