1. Windows Deployment Service (WDS) vs Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 (MDT) Choose The Right Tool
Rhonda Layfield Sr. Deployment Architect Deployment Done Right

2. Rhonda Layfield I live in Washington DC
Been in the IT industry for 30 years
US Navy for 7 years
Setup and Deployment MVP
Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS)
I am self employed
I provide training and consulting services
Twitter handle

3. The Goal For This Session
To help you decide which tool is right for you
All tools deploy both Server and Desktop Operating Systems (OSs)
Both tools are either FREE or In-The-Box

4. But First … What We Won’t Cover:
MDT
WDS
What We Won’t Cover:
Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)
But First …

5. Windows Deployment Service (WDS)

6. Windows Deployment Service
WDS replaces Remote Installation Services (RIS)
Provides both boot and installation images from the WDS server
Supports .WIM and .VHD technology

7. WDS Requirements
DHCP 1
AD/DNS 2 3
Bare-Metal
WDS

8. Install WDS Install WDS on a 2008 (or R2) server Server Manager
Add Roles
Select Windows Deployment Services from the list of roles

9. Configuring WDS WDS snap-in Right-click Servers
Add Server – defaults to local server
Right-click your server and choose Configure Server.

10. Store Your Images
Store your images on a drive other than where the OS resides

11. WDS Server also a DHCP Server?

12. WDS Server Responds To…

13. Known Clients - Active Directory

14. Prestaging and The GUID
564D49219C768546A956C310ED7D2BF6

15. Use a Specific WDS Server

16. Adding a Boot Image
A boot image is a Windows Pre Installation Environment (WinPE)
The most current will always be best
Windows 7 SP1 Boot.wim can deploy
Vista SP1 – Windows 7 – Windows 7 SP1
Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2
Use an older WinPE will produce undesired results

17. Add a Boot Image
Compare WinPEs

18. Adding an OS Image Both .wim and .vhd are supported Adding a .wim
Right–click Install Images
Add Install Image
Image Groups
Adding a .vhd
Elevated command prompt
WDSUTIL /Add-Image /ImageFile:\\Server\Share \Win7.vhd /Server:WDSServer /ImageType:Install /ImageGroup:Windows7 /Filename:"Windows7.vhd"

19. Add Drivers & Applications
3rd party drivers only
No Applications can be deployed from WDS
Only a Thick image containing your applications

20. From The Client Perform a Network Boot
Sometimes called a Pre Execution Boot Process OR
PXE Boot

21. WDS Client Deployment

22. Multicast Transmissions
WDSServer sends packet 1 to client1 WDSServer sends packet 1 to client2 WDSServer sends packet 1 to client3
WDSServer sends packet 1 to all clients
WDSServer sends packet 1 to client1, client2, client3
IGMP = Internet Group Management Protocol 22

23. Windows Deployment Services Multicast Enhancements
Multiple streams of traffic
Optimized rates based on client connection
Client Auto Removal
Slower clients can be dropped to unicast or entirely (only in standard multicast)
Boot Image Multicast
Windows PE boot images can use multicast (clients with EFI)
Fast
Medium
Slow

24. First client joins “transmission”
Multicast
WDS Server
First client joins “transmission”

25. Multicast
WDS Server
Fast
Medium
Slow
Medium

26. Multicast
WDS Server
Medium
Slow
Medium
Fast
Medium
Fast
Medium

27. Multicast
WDS Server
Slow
Medium
Medium

28. Multicast
WDS Server

29. Microsoft DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT 2012 (MDT 2012)

30. Setting Up MDT 2012: as easy as 1-2-3
Install WAIK 1
Operating Systems:
Server 2008 R2
Server 2003 R2
Vista
Windows 7
Install MDT 2
Create a Deployment Share 3
MDT 2012 Deployment Server

31. Create An Image To Deploy
Create A Reference 2
Deploy OS 1
Add an OS
MDT 2012 Deployment Server
SYSPREP
Store Image 3
W7 DVD
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2008 & R2
XP SP3
Vista SP1
Windows 7 & SP1
W7 DVD 31

32. Add Components Applications Drivers Packages Office 2010 Adobe Reader
3rd party
Packages
OS patches
Language packs

33. Over Time You Will Have Multiple Images To Deploy:
Multiple OSs
Windows 7 SP1 base DVD
Windows 7 custom Hybrid .wim image
Windows Server 2008 R2
Drivers for different models of machines
Applications for different groups of users
So you will need a way to group components together for a specific deployment
This is called a Task Sequence

34. Update The Deployment Share
Updating the deployment share creates a custom MDT Windows Pre Installation Environment (WinPE)
This WinPE is very intelligent
Pre-configured to know who the MDT server is and the name of the Deployment Share

35. MDT Network Deployment1
Copy WinPE
Boot Target 2
MDT WinPE
MDT 2012 Deployment Server 3
Connect to MDT Server and Download Image 35

36. Quick Note on Using USB Hard Drives
Different BIOS number the USB hard drives differently
When numbered 0 – they can show up as fixed drives and you don’t want that
ConfigMgr OSD does not support booting from USB hard drives

37. Boot Client With WinPE Walk Through The Deployment Wizard

38. OR MDT Deployment Image Bare Metal Pro No network connectivity needed
No version control

39. Automate the Clients Experience
When you run the Deployment Wizard
Choose which screens are displayed during the deployment
Suppress the ones you don’t want anyone to see or change like:
Product Key
Administrator’s password
Customize the words displayed on the pages

40. Linked Deployment Shares (LDS)

41. Branch Offices Toronto Oakville Hamilton Good WAN Links MDT DS OS
Application
Drivers
Task Sequences OS
Application
Drivers
Task Sequences OS
Application
Drivers
Task Sequences
MDT DS
Good WAN Links
Oakville
Hamilton

42. Linked Deployment Shares (LDS)
LDS allows you to copy a subset (or all if you choose) of components to another machine
Even Windows 7 can host a LDS
But, if you host the LDS on a server you can integrate WDS with it

43. MDT Database Feature

44. MDT Database Feature Server1 I’m 00-FF-B0-2B-48-09 DHCP MDT
MDT WinPE
DHCP
Server3
MDT
Deployment Server
I’m 53-FF-C
2K8R2
DNS DC

45. MDT Database Automate what gets installed on a computer How it works:
Original image and re-imaging
How it works:
When a client begins the Deployment Wizard a script runs: ZTIGather.wsf
Gathers all kinds of information from the client like:
Universally Unique ID (UUID)
Serial number
Asset tag
MACAddress
Queries the MDT database for a match
Applies the configured settings

46. New To MDT 2012

47. MDT 2012 & ConfigManager Aligned more closely with Config Manager 2012
Shipping times:
RTM after Config Manager 2012 ships
Still need to integrate MDT 2012 into Config Manager 2012
New Terminology
Advertise = Deploy
Packages can either be optional or mandatory
Optional = available
Mandatory = required

48. New Features New Deployment Wizard Deploy .vhd images
Supports deploying ThinPC and POSReady
ThinPC – basic Win7
Citrix or Terminal Services client
POSReady
Point of Sales – cash registers
Cross platform deployment
32 bit WinPE can deploy 32 or 64 bit OSs

49. More New Features Diagnosis and Recovery Toolset (DART)
Allows remote control of target machines
Even in the WinPE phase
Deployment Workbench gets a new tab
Monitor deployment clients
Properties of the deployment share are more streamlined
New UDI wizard designer
Image factory – create .wim or .vhd
Vhd can be deployed via Virtual Machine Manager as templates to create new virtual machines

50. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Full support of UEFI
Intels replacement for PC BIOS
Offers support for GUID partition tables (GPT)
MBR partition tables restricted disk partition sizes to a maximum of 2.19 TB
MBR supports only 4 partitions
4 primary
3 primary and 1 extended (break it up into logicals)
GPT allows a maximum disk and partition size of 9.4 ZB
1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes
Supports upto 128 volumes
A zettabyte (symbol ZB, derived from the SI prefix zetta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one sextillion (one long scale trilliard) bytes.[1][2][3][4]
As of 2011, no storage system has achieved one zettabyte of information. The combined space of all computer hard drives in the world was estimated at approximately 160 exabytes in 2006.[5] This has increased rapidly however, as during the 2011 Fiscal Year, Seagate reported selling a combined total of 330 exabytes of hard drives. This does not include shipments from any other manufacturer, and only includes those sold during [6] As of 2009, the entire Internet was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes.[7]
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = bytes = 1021 bytes
The term "zebibyte" (ZiB), using a binary prefix, is used for the corresponding power of 1024.
[edit] Comparisons for scale
A zettabyte is equal to 1 billion terabytes.
The world’s technological capacity to receive information through one-way broadcast networks was zettabytes of (optimally compressed) information in 1986, in 1993, 1.2 in 2000, and 1.9 (optimally compressed) zettabytes in 2007 (this is the informational equivalent to every person on earth receiving 174 newspapers per day). [8]
According to the annual survey of the global digital output by International Data Corporation, the total amount of global data was expected to pass 1.2 zettabytes sometime during This is equivalent to the amount of data that would be generated by everyone in the world posting messages on the microblogging site Twitter continuously for a century.[9]
Mark Liberman calculated the storage requirements for all human speech ever spoken at 42 zettabytes if digitized as 16 kHz 16-bit audio. This was done in response to a popular expression that states "all words ever spoken by human beings" could be stored in approximately 5 exabytes of data (see exabyte for details). Liberman did "freely confess that maybe the authors [of the exabyte estimate] were thinking about text."[10]
Research from the University of Southern California reports that in 2007, humankind successfully sent 1.9 zettabytes of information through broadcast technology such as televisions and GPS. [11]
Research from the University of California, San Diego reports that in 2008, Americans consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information.[12]

51. 512 Byte – 4K Misalignment
Legacy drives support 512-byte physical sectors
OSs use 4K logical block sizes
virtual memory pages & file systems like NTFS
512 4K
512
512
512
512

52. Sector Overhead 4K 4K Data ID Information Synchronization Fields
identify each sector by number and location
a single bit is used to indicate if the sector has been marked defective
Synchronization Fields
Where do I go to find the next piece of a file
Error Correcting Code (ECC)
ensure data integrity
Gaps or spacers
separate sector areas and gives the controller time to process what has been read before moving on to process more data
522
518
524
520
516 4K
512 4K

53. What’s The Problem? The Fix
The result is performance is degraded
10% – 30%
The fix is for hardware and OSs to both read at a 4K sector size
4K sector sizes are not supported for XP
But they are in WinPE 3.0

54. Integrate MDT & WDS Together
The Best of Both Worlds
Integrate MDT & WDS Together

55. MDT & WDS Together Targets PXE Boot WDS Server Win 7 Image
MDT 2012 Deployment Server
MDT WinPE
MDT WinPE
Win 7 Image
Download Image
PXE Boot
Targets 55

56. Feature Comparison MDT 2010 MDT 2012 WDS
Supports .wim images
YES
Supports .vhd images NO
Requires Infrastructure
Manage images easily
Driver management
Easy
Difficult
Provides PXE capabilities
W/ WDS
W/WDS
Provides Multicast
Creates offline or stand alone media
Automate Deployments
Corporate Deployment Share replicates DS to Branch Offices

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58. MDT 2012 Video Installation and upgrade
Create and upgrade deployment shares
Network deployments
Automate network deployments
Customize network deployments
Branch office deployment shares
No network needed deployments
XP migrations to Windows 7
Server OS deployments
MDT database
MDT & WDS integration
MDT & ConfigMgr 2012 integration

59. NEW 5 day DEPLOYMENT CLASS
5 days
ACT
MAP
USMT
Setup.exe architecture
Windows AIK
Windows SIM
Sysprep
ImageX
DISM
MDT 2010
MDT 2012
WDS
WDS Windows 8
ConfigMgr 2007 R3
ConfigMgr 2012
KMS and Activation

60. Information & registration For Class
May 7-11
Washington DC area (Greenbelt Maryland)
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