Tools to plan and deploy Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted By: David Tesar | Jul 2nd, 2009 @ 5:28 PM | 43,684 Views | 5 Comments

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I sat down with Mary Anne Blake, Baldwin Ng, and Melissa Stowe to help you learn how the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT), Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 (MAP), and Infrastructure Planning and Design guides (IPD), can help you deploy Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2. With so many tools, which one should you use when? What are some limitations of each tool?

Here's how the interview breaks down:

How IPD guides will help with Win7 / R2 migration
Where IPD guides won’t help
[3:37] What the MAP toolkit can do to help with your migration
[7:48] Requirements to install MAP
[10:29] How the MDT will help with your deployment of Win7 R2 and how the MDT works
[14:53] When you might run into limitations with the MDT
When you should use the SCCM integration option versus the standalone MDT.
[16:08] How many machines to have minimum return of investment to use the MDT?
[17:00] One Tip/Trick for each of the IPD, MAP, and MDT

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Tags: Deployment, IPD, MAP Toolkit, MDT, MDT 2010, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Solution Accelerator, Top 10, Windows 7

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michaelsainz

Did anyone catch that tool Baldwin Ng mentioned towards the end of the vid for checking permissions? Kinda interested...

Baldwin Ng MSFT

In reply to michaelsainz

#Jul 7th, 2009 @ 11:17 AM

Hi Michael,

Please make sure your credentials are correct for the targeted servers and desktops. Also make sure that you have the environment prepared for the WMI remote scan. For more info see MAP FAQ page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd450979.aspx

A good addition tool to check your credentials is the WBEMTest.exe tool. Use it PRIOR to running MAP and you'll get better results.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785775(WS.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc180684.aspx

Thanks,

Baldwin

extreme

One other useful relevant piece of info - You can use an image created with the MDT LTI (non-SCCM scenario) process with ConfigMgr by simply creating a package in ConfigMgr with the OS image from LTI. This would be useful if you start out with MDT only and want to use ConfigMgr later.

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ashley montagu

Hey Baldwin,

WBEMTest.exe tool was very intresting and useful.

Thanks,
ashley montagu

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