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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is Microsoft's imaging and provisioning system for automated systems deployments.

MDT can help build an automated installation source for deploying Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Office 2010 and Office 365 from either a single machine or a central server distribution tool, such as Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).Device drivers, Windows updates and software can be included with the build.

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WDS - Image Install/Deploy Time

Was wondering if others could provide some feedback. I've been tasked with setting up a WDS server to deploy images to workstations over the network. I've gotten it up and running, captured my first image, and just finished deploying it to a…
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MDT reboots before Deployment Wizard

I was having issues with Windows 10 not showing a language to install in MDT, so I updated MDT to 2013u2 and regenerated the boot images. Now when I use PXE boot, the MDT background comes up for about 30 seconds, then cuts to black and reboots to…
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Pause MDT task sequence to install drivers?

Is there a good way to pause and resume an MDT deployment task sequence? I need to image some non-standard machines which don't have drivers in our MDT server. I tried pausing the sequence with cscript.exe “%SCRIPTROOT%\LTISuspend.wsf” but it…
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MDT 2013 WinPE File Name

In MDT 2013, is there a way to change the file name of the WinPE WIM that's generated from updating the share? I'm going to be using multiple deployment shares with WDS, and I was trying to automate importing the WinPE WIMs into WDS. I know you…
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MDT 2013u1 Company Selection

I work for an MSP, and we support 7 companies, each with their own application requirements, and each company can have either Windows 7, 8, or 10 installed based on what they request. I wanted to do company based installs in MDT, ie selecting…
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SCCM OSD Issues

I have a "Run PowerShell Script" Step in an OSD Task Sequence. This script copies some files to a location and then runs an executable. If I use ROBOCOPY to copy the files, i get an exit code 1 (files copied ok) and the executable fired, does what…
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Using MDT to deploy simple images from external SSD to to windows based point of sale terminals

Background I work with point of sale terminals that are windows based machines. In order to image a customers terminal, we have a copy of their OS on an external SSD and we remove the drive from the POS terminal and use a duplicator to copy the…
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Deploy simple images using MDT internal sata drives

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…
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WDS - PXE Boot can't connect to Deployment Share

Getting the following error message: Connection to the deployment share could not be made. Connection OK. Possible invalid Credentials. Could this be an error in the "bootstrap.ini" file? If it is invalid credentials what exactly is this referring…
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Trusted Sites in Captured Wim (Server 08 R2)

I have an inherited Windows Server 08 R2 .wim image used in MDT 2013. This image appears to contain custom Trusted Sites that are included after deployment, and stay there with every sysprep/capture when the image is updated. The background to this…
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Why can I boot and install windows from a MS MDT server, using ISC for the dhcp server, but only under lageacy bios, not UEFI?

Setup is: Windows 2012 R2 with MDT 2013 Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 running ISC dhcp Client can be VM/Hardware doesn't matter. If I stay in legacy bios mode things work splendidly. When I switch to UEFI, and watch the log on the DHCP server, I see…
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MDT LiteTouchPE Windows 8.1 deployment very slow

I'm deploying Windows 8.1 via network boot using MDT on an external hard drive connected to computer to create a Windows To Go drive. But the step in my task sequence "Install Operating System" takes a lot of time (+ 45 min). I tried to do the same…
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WDS PXE Server occasionally returning bad IP

We have a very complex network boot environment to keep traffic separated for our imaging networks, which process hundred of machines an hour. We use the WDS Server Selection menu tweak (http://www.stephan-schwarz.net/?p=58) to allow for multiple…
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Application deployment using MDT with no access to network.

Is it possible to install ONLY software using MDT via USB? I don't want to deploy OS as don't want to lose the licence. I would like to achieve this scenario: Laptop with installed Windows 8.1 USB stick with MDT on it is plugged in I run silent…
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Can't connect to DeploymentShare$ from PC attempting to MDT, but can other PCs on the network

I am in the process of setting up MDT and have run across a problem. MDT is installed on a Windows 2012 server, MDT version 6.2.5019.0. Using WDS as well. Active Directory domain, the server is up to date and on the network. I boot up the PC, it…
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