MDT 2010 Setup Step by Step Part 1
Dave Coleman | July 7, 2010
On the 8th July 2010 I will be giving a presentation to a group of Network managers from Essex on how we deployed Windows 7 in August 2009 and covering some of the issues that we had. At that time we used ghost to deploy but now we are using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit so I thought I would share with you over the next few post how to setup MDT and start to deploy your operating systems and applications with this great free tool.
None of this would have been possible without the hours of research and trial and error put in by Neil Hodgkinson my assistant network manager who has perfected the use and deployment of MDT down to a fine art.
Installing MDT
The first step is to add the Windows Deployment Services role from server manager
Leave both role services ticked please be aware of the prerequisites required to run WDS i.e. Active Directory, DNS and DHCP these do not need to be installed on this server but available on the domain
Configuration of MDT
Once the role is installed the next step is the configuration of the server, from server manager click on the newly installed WDS Role if you then click on the servers item in the view you will see that further configuration is required on the server.
Right click on the server name and choose ‘Configure Server’
You will then be presented with an information screen outlining the prerequisites required to run WDS as I stated earlier
The only additional requirement is that the server has an NTFS partition to store the images on
For this series of posts I have configured this virtual machine with a 40GB Data partition as you can see from the screenshot above it does recommend that the images are not stored on the system partition.
The next screen is the PXE Server Initial Settings screen here you are presented with 3 options
| Do Not Respond To Any Client Computers |
| Respond Only To Known Client Computers |
| Respond To All Client Computers (Known and Unknown) |
For this series I will select ‘Respond to all computers (Known and Unknown)’ with this option selected you are also presented with a further tick box that allows you to configure an option that requires admin approval to unknown client computers through the pending node snap in.
I will un-tick add images to the server now as we will be using MDT 2010 for our image creation and management. The screenshot below shows the WDS snapin as represented in server manager the next step is the MDT 2010 setup.
In the next post in this seies i will show you how to install and configure AIK
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