I’ve been revisiting my MDT process as I wanted to try and use Windows Update to get drivers during deployment – by itself this is not a problem, I can just remove the WSUSServer=http://wsus:8530 configuration from the CustomSettings.ini. However as the device is added to the domain, Group Policy will configure the device to use…
Tag: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Deploying A Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update) Reference Image with MDT
Continuing from a previous post: Building A Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update) Reference Image with MDT, this post will walk through creating a Deployment Share to deploy the Windows 10 reference image. It is assumed that you have a Server or PC with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and it’s dependencies installed and have been through the…
Building A Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update) Reference Image with MDT
This post will walk through installing and configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to build a reference image of Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update) using a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. It is assumed that you have a Server or PC ready to install MDT onto and create an file share for MDT to build the image with. Here…
Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services for PXE Booting with Windows Server 2016
Windows Deployment Services can not be installed on Windows Server Core unfortunately – it still requires a Windows Server install with a GUI (Desktop Experience). Luckily we can still install it using PowerShell and the command line. In this post I’ll go through the initial steps on how to deploy and configure a WDS server…
Upgrading/Installing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Build 8450
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit build 8450 is out. You can read more about it here over on the MS Deployment Blog. Installing & Configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Dependencies. Here are the links the software we’ll be using: Windows 10 1703 Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (8450) First we’ll install the Windows…
Image and Task Sequence Testing for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Hyper-V
In a previous post I wrote about my Image Factory PowerShell script for MDT. This post is about a script derived from that which I setup to test my images and my deployment task sequences. Since this script is only an edit of the previous one I don’t intend to release it “officially” on the…
Building a Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Update 16/01/2018: Updated this post to reflect the release of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 8450, which fully supports Windows 10 1709. Update 30/10/2017: If SysPrep is consistently failing when building your Windows 10 1709 image, it is most likely due to the Windows Store update process updating the built in UWP apps. This issue is a known…
From Zero to 10 – Windows 10 Deployment Round-up
This is a round-up all my previous posts regarding deployment and configuring Windows 10, installing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Windows Server Update Services into one post for reference. Installing and Configuring a WSUS Server Installing WSUS from scratch! Resolving WSUS Connection Errors On Windows Server 2012 R2 Installing and Configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Getting Started…
Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update Deployment Preview
I’ve been testing a preview build of Windows 10 1709 – the Fall Creators Update with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and putting it through a few task sequences. I’m happy to say that I’ve not encountered any issues, which I did with previous updates. Keep reading for more info on my testing below. The main point…
Image Factory for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit v2.8
In a previous post I wrote about my Image Factory for MDT, powered by Hyper-V and PowerShell. This post will serve as a change log and documentation page, as the previous post was more about how the utility is written as a reference. This utility is available to download from the Microsoft TechNet Gallery, the PowerShell…
