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

David Tesar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:28:00 GMT

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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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - building install media for Windows 7

Adam Bomb — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 and User State Migration Tool (USMT), it's possible to create a USB drive to install Windows7 that will migrate all the user data from an XP or Vista install - and here's the cool part - can finish it all in less than 30 minutes on pretty typical hardware. I've demo'd it at conferences, and Jeremy has done screencasts and demos of it here on Edge.
In this video, Jeremy gives us a quick tour of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and shows how to create the install media that makes the magic happen.
The MDT is currently in beta, you can download it from http://connect.microsoft.com
You can see the tool in action here and here. A screencast of the MDT is here.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Zero Touch Screencast

Joey Snow — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:01:00 GMT

This 35 minute video walks you through all the steps to prepare for a zero touch installation of a Windows Vista image using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007:

Setup the server environment for ConfigMgr 2007 OS deployment
Configure the ConfigMgr 2007 Site Settings
Configure the ConfigMgr 2007 Computer Management Settings
Configure the ConfigMgr 2007 Operating System Deployment Settings
Setup and use MDT integration with ConfigMgr 2007
Add a reference machine object to ConfigMgr 2007
Create a build and capture reference image for mass deployment using ConfigMgr 2007

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Lite Touch Screencast

Joey Snow — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:53:00 GMT

This 30 minute video shows you how to use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to build and prepare a Windows Vista desktop image for automated deployment, including:

Add operating systems, applications, drivers and packages to MDT
Configure Office 2007 into the build process
Create a MDT Lite Touch task sequence
Setup a lab based deployment point
Create a customized build to a reference computer
Capture the reference computer as a customized WIM
Add the customized WIM back into MDT for deployment