Windows Deployment Keynote

Welcome!

PLAN – PLAN – Practice - Plan Plan it – Practice it.

History of deploying Floppy disks Winnt /b Answer files Remote Installation services Ghost (imaging) ImageX and MDT2010

Identifying the Valid Upgrade Paths

Windows 9XWindows MEWindows NT4Windows 2000

Windows 9XWindows MEWindows NT4Windows 2000

Windows Vista SP1, SP2Windows Vista SP1, SP2 Windows 7Windows 7

Only clean installOnly clean install

Clean installClean install

• In-place upgrade• Clean install•Migration

• In-place upgrade• Clean install•Migration

MigrationMigrationWindows XPWindows Vista RTMWindows XPWindows Vista RTM

Windows Anytime Upgrade enables you to upgrade to a higher edition of Windows 7

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

Deployment Platform Components

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Introducing MDT 2010 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

◦ Replaces the ubiquitous Win98 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 Win7 / R2 code base◦ Included in the Windows Automated Installation

Kit for Windows 7 (aka WAIK 2.0)

Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE)

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

I M A G E X . E X E

Demo◦ Booting into WinPE from flash drive◦ Capturing an image

imagex /capture c: x:\image.wim 1 “description”

◦ Managing partitions with Diskpart◦ Deploying an image

imagex /apply x:\image.wim 1 c:

WinPE & Imagex in Action

WAIK 2.0

◦ Windows Automated Installation Toolkit◦ Used to edit Vista and higher unattended

installations

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

Windows System Image Manager

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

Sysprep◦ Improved in Windows Vista & 7◦ Still necessary!

Storing multiple “images” in the same image file provides advantages

Image Management

Show The Movie

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

Resources –page1 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/part

-4-choosing-and-image-strategy-and-building-windows-7-system-images.aspx

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit◦ http://blogs.technet.com/msdeployment

MDT 2010◦ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx

Schuff at myITforum.com◦ http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jscheffelmaer

MDT Wizard Editor◦ http://mdtwizardeditor.codeplex.com

WMI Administrative Tools◦ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=643

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DeployWindows.Net◦ http://deploywindows.net/

myITForum.com◦ http://www.myitform.com