MDT 2010 Setup Step by Step Part 5

Windows Deployment services PXE boot image

One of the steps at the beginning of this article was to setup Windows Deployment Services we will now use this to deploy a PXE boot image. From the Start Menu | Administration Tools select Windows Deployment Services once open right click on boot images and select ‘Add Boot Image’

The boot images are stored in your deployment share and are found in the boot folder I will select the LiteTouchPE_x86.wim file for this demo

The final step of this part is to enable multicast this is achieved by going back to the MDT workbench and right click on the deployment share and choose properties on the general tab and tick enable multicast from the general page.

Creating a Task sequence

The final part in configuring MDT 2010 is to create a task sequence this will enable you to deploy your chosen operating systems to your client workstations.

The first step is to open the deployment workbench and right click on the task sequence node and choose “New Task Sequence”

The first screen you will see is the general settings enter a Task Sequence ID and a Task sequence name you can optionally enter a description

The next screen asks which template to use I will leave this at the default setting Standard client task sequence

The next screen asks you to choose your OS earlier in the article I set up a Windows 7 OS so this is displayed here

The next screen asks you to specify a product key this give you three options do not specify a product key is what I will choose as we use a KMS server for key management

The next screen asks for your OS setting Full name, Organization and IE home page

The next screen asks for a local admin password you can let the user enter their own or specify a password yourself I would always set a password otherwise you could end up in a situation where every workstation has an individual password and this situation would be unmanageable.

Next you will see a summary screen giving a breakdown of all the information in your new task sequence

Once you click next your task sequence will be created and a final confirmation screen will be shown

Finally as I have said previously update the deployment share from the deployment workbench this is always a good habit to get into after every change you make.

In the next and final part of this series we will look at MDT Rules.

Dave

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