Here is a little background into my situation hopefully there is a better way to do it. A task I perform very frequently is duplicate customers images from their internal sata drives to multiple drives for deployment. The way I do it now is with a 5 dock sled that has a source drive (with the simple customer image) and 4 blank target disks (drives that I want to copy the image onto). As you can imagine, this is very time consuming. I am familiar with using MDT to deploy images to different servers and workstations and dont have any issues there. What I would like to know is whether or not I can use MDT to take place of this sled. If we could keep the customers images on the server and then whenever we need to image a drive we could plug it right in with a sata/usb adaptor and just copy it over. Is this possible?
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You should google that https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d837d88-6d8e-420c-b68f-a5b4baeb5248.aspx – Adjit Oct 02 '15 at 21:38
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@adjit No wds won't help here, you should read the article you want someone else to "google" and understand the topic. – Jim B Oct 03 '15 at 17:00
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You could. You would need a TS that would allow you to select the image required. The difference is you would have to have a full PC- not just the drive, however the scale of deployments is no longer limited to the number of slots in a sled (just the number of power outlets and network connections.
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Thank you for that information. We will have a terminal set up to do this. Are you aware of any additional steps within the MDT UI that I would need to take given the circumstances? Or maybe there are steps I should avoid? I've tried to do research on this specific way to copy images but there isnt much out there. – Mangster Oct 02 '15 at 17:30