SESSION CODE CLI 313 Michael Niehaus Senior Software

SESSION CODE: CLI 313 Michael Niehaus Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft WHAT’S NEW IN MDT 2012? (c) 2011 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

MDT 2012 An introduction ► New release to ride the System Center 2012 “wave” – Adding support for Configuration Manager 2012 and all of its new OS deployment capabilities ► Providing enhancements for all existing customers – Lite Touch – Zero Touch – User Driven Installation ► Laying the foundation for the next version of Windows

MDT 2012 Timeline ► Beta 1 is now available to everyone from http: //connect. microsoft. com – Solution Accelerator connection, Microsoft Deployment program – Please download and provide feedback, either directly or through Connect ► Beta 2 is expected in October, with release shortly after Config. Mgr 2012 RTM

MDT 2012 Beta 1 Features ► Support for Config. Mgr 2012 – New app model support (in TS and database) – Integration with the new console (wizards, task sequence actions) – Support for new pre-execution hook (automate TS selection)

MDT 2012 and Config. Mgr 2012 Michael Niehaus Senior SDE Microsoft Corporation demo

MDT 2012 Beta 1 Features ► Infrastructure enhancements – – – – Deploy to VHD support Support for Windows Thin. PC and Windows POSReady 7 Cross-platform deployment (x 64 OS from x 86 Windows PE) Improved Lite Touch wizard look-and-feel Additional progress displays Partitioning and user state migration improvements Full support for UEFI, 4 K disks Bug fixes, supportability enhancements, etc.

MDT 2012 Beta 1 Features ► Continued support for old operating systems – Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 – Change of plans since first discussed at Tech. Ready 12 ► Continued support for Config. Mgr 2007 – (MDT OEM task sequence templates for Config. Mgr will be removed)

MDT 2012 Lite Touch Wizards Michael Niehaus Senior SDE Microsoft Corporation demo

MDT 2012 Beta 1 Known Issues ► Lite Touch – Deployment share upgrades flatten logical folder structure – Static IP configuration isn’t in the right place for bare metal deployments – Deployment logic doesn’t always pick the proper partition – User state migration may fail when multiple partitions are present ► Config. Mgr – Deployment logic doesn’t always pick the proper partition – Volume choice in the UDI wizard is ignored – UDI Wizard designer does not recognize the presence of the Config. Mgr 2012 console – Boot image generation fails if the Config. Mgr 2012 console isn’t running elevated

MDT 2012 Beta 2 Features ► New User Driven Installation Components – – New UDI Wizard Designer Extensible wizard Support for selecting Config. Mgr 2012 applications (No more web service) ► Full Windows Recovery Environment support ► MDOP functionality – Integration of Da. RT 7 (including remote control) – Support for App-V ► Power. Shell support in the task sequences ► Offline user state migration for Lite Touch

MDT 2012 Beta 2 and Da. RT Michael Niehaus Senior SDE Microsoft Corporation demo

MDT 2012 Beta 2 Features ► “Run. Once” task sequence execution ► Improved cleanup from failed or interrupted task sequences ► Monitoring ► Image Factory ► Error recovery and retry

MDT 2012 Beta 2 Monitoring Michael Niehaus Senior SDE Microsoft Corporation demo

MDT 2012 Beta 2 Potential Features ► Replace “Components” tab with community content ► Security improvements ► And maybe more… ► Suggestions?

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