Windows Deployment Keynote Welcome PLAN Practice Plan it

Windows Deployment Keynote Welcome!

PLAN – Practice - Plan it – Practice it.

History of deploying Floppy disks Winnt /b Answer files Remote Installation services Ghost (imaging) Image. X and MDT 2010

Identifying the Valid Upgrade Paths Windows 9 X Windows ME Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 Only clean install Windows XP Windows Vista RTM Clean install Migration • In-place upgrade • Clean install • Migration Windows Vista SP 1, SP 2 Windows Anytime Upgrade enables you to upgrade to a higher edition of Windows 7

Image Types Thick – great for quick and dirty – minimal opportunity for customization. One-offs Thin – great for quick imaging, need extensive modifications after installation. Excellent in highly engineered/automated environment Hybrid – What many use

Image Deployment types NEW – no data or settings (state) to save or migrate REFRESH – same computer, state to migrate REPLACE – new computer, state migrated from previous computer UPGRADE – in-place upgrade to existing computer, state stays same

Deployment Methonds LTI ◦ Lite-Touch Installation – kicked off manually and user answers wizard questions ZTI ◦ Zero-Touch Installation – kicked off automatically, no prompts ◦ Requires System Center Configuration Manager

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Introducing 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 MDT 2010 makes these changes transparent

Windows Pre-installation Environment (Win. PE) ◦ Replaces the ubiquitous Win 98 boot disk ◦ Includes a GUI with Notepad, Task Manager ◦ Includes a full network stack Built-in support for a plethora of network cards ◦ Version 3. 0 includes Win 7 / R 2 code base ◦ Included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 (aka WAIK 2. 0)

IMAGEX. EXE Imagex – Microsoft’s Ghost Buster ◦ Creates and deploys file-based images of entire drive partitions ◦ ◦ Unlike sector-based images (CD, DVD, GHO) Images stored in Windows Image Format (WIM) Uses single-instance file storage Supports three levels of compression Utility also mounts and manipulates WIM files

Win. PE & Imagex in Action Demo ◦ Booting into Win. PE from flash drive ◦ Capturing an imagex /capture c: x: image. wim 1 “description” ◦ Managing partitions with Diskpart ◦ Deploying an imagex /apply x: image. wim 1 c:

WAIK 2. 0 ◦ Windows Automated Installation Toolkit ◦ Used to edit Vista and higher unattended installations

Windows System Image Manager DVD unattended install Creates Autounattend. xml answer file Placed in root of bootable Vista DVD, USB flash drive or Floppy. Will give you a unattended deployment

DISM. EXE ◦ Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Replaces several previous tools, adds new enumeration capabilities ◦ Tool used to make offline edits to WIM ◦ Apply updates, install drivers, install features ◦ Scriptable – Automate updating of your image library

Image Management Sysprep ◦ Improved in Windows Vista & 7 ◦ Still necessary! Storing multiple “images” in the same image file provides advantages

Show The Movie http: //edge. technet. com/Media/Microsoft-Deployment. Toolkit-Lite-Touch-Screencast

Resources –page 1 The Deployment Guys Blog ◦ http: //blogs. technet. com/deploymentguys Michael Niehaus Blog ◦ http: //Blogs. technet. com/mniehaus/ Windows Team Blog ◦ http: //windowsteamblog. com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/11/08/pa rt-4 -choosing-and-image-strategy-and-building-windows-7 -systemimages. aspx Microsoft Deployment Toolkit ◦ http: //blogs. technet. com/msdeployment MDT 2010 ◦ http: //technet. microsoft. com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd 407791. aspx

Schuff at my. ITforum. com ◦ http: //myitforum. com/cs 2/blogs/jscheffelmaer MDT Wizard Editor ◦ http: //mdtwizardeditor. codeplex. com WMI Administrative Tools ◦ http: //www. microsoft. com/downloads/details. aspx? familyid=643 0 F 853 -1120 -48 DB-8 CC 5 -F 2 ABDC 3 ED 314&displaylang=en Deploy. Windows. Net ◦ http: //deploywindows. net/ my. ITForum. com ◦ http: //www. myitform. com