virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 Unleash the power of MDT 2010 Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

 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 virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 S E S S I O N A G E N D A

 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 virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 Introducing MDT2010

 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. virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 what’s New in MDT2010 Update 1 The new features in MDT 2010 Update1 Include the following:

 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. virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 what’s New in MDT2010 Update 1 Support for Upgrading from previous versions of MDT and BDD

virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 MDT 2010 Focus Areas Deployment Workbench Architecture Enhancements PowerShell Capabilities Task Sequence and Script Enhancements Configuration Manager Improvements

virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 DEMO: Deployment Workbench and PowerShell Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

 Simple upgrade process  Folders everywhere  Deployment points anywhere  PowerShell throughout  Automate replication, media generation  Publish boot WIMs to WDS  Sort folders and items virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 Deployment Workbench and PowerShell Summary

virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 DEMO: Task Sequence and Scripts Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

 Restructured scripts, better error handling  Dynamic logging directly to the network  New templates  Calling stored procedures and web services  Customizing wizards  virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 Task Sequence and Scripts Summary

virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 DEMO: ConfigMgr SP2 and MDT 2010 Kaliyan Selvaraj │ Sr. Technical Consultant, Dell India

 Create task sequence wizard enhancements  Automated USMT 4.0 hard-link migration  Basic wizard integration virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 ConfigMgr SP2 and MDT 2010 Summary

virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 MDT 2010 Opportunities for customization Edit CustomSettings.ini and Bootstrap.ini Query databases, web services Add additional steps Modify existing steps, conditions Modify the wizards we provide Add additional panes Wizards Create your own scripts that leverage the framework Modify the scripts we provide Scripts Rules Task sequences

virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 MDT 2010 Changes may affect existing customizations Changes for secure web services, database enhancementsNo significant changes (yet) Rework of scripts that use XML configuration files Changes to the wizard templates to support new capabilities Wizards Structural changes to all scripts New library files for data access, configuration file access ScriptsRules Task sequences

  Pre-built customizations available on the web:      virtual techdays INDIA │ 9-11 February 2011 For More Information  Join BangaloreITPro User Group 

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