MDT 2010 Setup Step by Step

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Setup Guide Step By Step

Dave Coleman SharePointEduTech.com

7/17/2010


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Contents MDT 2010 Setup Step by step ............................................................................................................. 1

Installing MDT ..................................................................................................................................... 1

Configuration of MDT ......................................................................................................................... 3

Installing the Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7 ....................................... 7

Install Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 ........................................................................................ 8

Configure the Deployment Shares for MDT 2010............................................................................... 9

Adding a Base Image to MDT 2010 ................................................................................................... 15

Adding an application to your MDT installation ............................................................................... 19

Customizing your application ........................................................................................................... 23

Office Customization Tool ................................................................................................................. 24

Windows Deployment services PXE boot image .............................................................................. 25

Creating a Task Sequence ................................................................................................................. 27

Rule Settings in MDT 2010 ................................................................................................................ 32

Update .............................................................................................................................................. 34

MDT 2010 Setup Step by step

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

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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.



Installing the Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7

MDT 2010 uses the Windows 7 automated installation kit which can be down loaded from the

Microsoft site here so before we continue I will install and configure, the download for AIK is an ISO

file you can at this point burn to a DVD or unpack the ISO file and run setup.

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Click on Windows AIK setup from the list on the left and all I did to complete the installation of AIK is

follow the prompts and accept all the default values.

Install Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

The next step is to download from here the installation files for MDT 2010 on this site you will find

install files for 64bit and also 32bit installs as well various read me files to help you get the most out

of MDT 2010.

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Again with this install I will accept all the default values as I go through the install. After the install is

completed you will have a new start menu item called Microsoft Deployment Toolkit we will now

continue the configuration by clicking on deployment workbench.

Configure the Deployment Shares for MDT 2010

Through this part of the post I will show how to configure the images you require for your operating

system deployments I will be using windows 7 for this but you could use windows vista or XP.



You now need to create a deployment share this is completed by right clicking deployment share in

the MMC and selecting ‘new deployment share’

I will store all my images on the E data drive I created earlier for my server setup

By default the system will create the share as a hidden share (With a $ symbol at the end) I will leave

this as the setting to use



The next screen asks for a descriptive name I will accept the default setting



The next screen asks if an image should be captured if you are planning on using MDT to capture the

image leave this ticked

The next screen asks if you should allow users to set the local admin password I would recommend

leaving this unticked as you could end up not knowing the local admin password on any of your

computers and potentially every machine having a unique admin password (not sure how you could

manage that situation)



The next screen asks should the user be prompted for a product key this can be useful but we use a

KMS server (Maybe another post) so we do not require this so I will leave it unticked.



Next you will see the summary screen check all the settings and click next



By Default the permissions setup on the deployment share are –

System Creator Owner Administrator Users

Full Control ● ●

Modify ● ●

Read & Execute ● ● ●

List Folder Contents ● ● ●

Read ● ● ●

Write ● ●

Special Permissions ● ●

Adding a Base Image to MDT 2010

The next step is now to add a base image to your MDT deployment.

Expand the deployment shares and right click Operating Systems and select ‘Import Operating

System’



I will choose the Full set of source files option and for this I will need the windows 7 DVD so click

next



Choose the path to your source files and click next

Select a destination directory name I will stick with the defaults for this article you will then be

presented with a summary screen check to make sure all is ok and then click next this will take you

to a progress screen and once the import is completed click finish.



The next step is to update the right clicking on MDT Deployment shares and choose ‘Update

Deployment Share’

Select completely regenerate the boot images this is always good practice each time you make any

changes to your MDT setup



Adding an application to your MDT installation

The next thing we will do is add Office 2010 to the base image this is not a necessary step at the

moment so if you deploy applications using a 3rd party tool you can skip this step.

Open the Deployment workbench and the MDT Deployment Share section and right click on the

applications sub section and choose “New Application”

This will launch the new application wizard this will give you three options

Application with source files

Application without source files or elsewhere on the network

Application Bundle



On the next screen fill in the Publisher details, Application name, Version and Language the only

mandatory field is application name

The next screen asks you to choose the location of the source files I will be using the Office 2010

DVD for this article



The next screen will ask for the destination location in your MDT deployment I will leave this at the

default setting.

The next screen asks for the command line to kick off the install you can use command line

arguments in this but again I will leave it as default and customize later.



Next you will see a summary screen and when you click next all the source files will be copied to

your deployment.

After the copy process click finish your application is now ready to deploy with your image.



Customizing your application

From the deployment workbench click on application and right click on your newly created package

and choose properties

From this screen we will see 4 tabs including an office products tab as illustrated below.

The part we are going to focus on is the “Office Customization Tool” button you can on the office tab

enter the product key and enter basic information but we will look more closely at the advanced

customization available.



Office Customization Tool

When you click on the Office Customization Tool button an information box will pop up informing

you that the MSP file created will need to be stored in the updates folder so that setup can find it

during the office install.

Once Ok is click you will see the screen illustrated below

Highlight the product and click OK this will give you access to the advanced customization



This interface and options available would require a booklet of its own but you can find more

information at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx

Once you have finished your customization close the tool and update the deployment share from

the workbench this is always good practice after any changes.

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’

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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.

Rule Settings in MDT 2010

MDT 2010 as you have seen is very customizable and you can stop some screens showing with the

rules available in MDT this will cut down on the amount of input required during the operating

system install. Theses inbuilt rules are quite limited so below you will find many more that you can

add.

To access the rules from the deployment workbench Right click your deployment share and choose

properties the second tab (Rules) will show you the limited built in rules.



The list of rules below when applied will only show 3 screens during the install process

Computer Name

Task Sequence Selection

Time Zone Selection

[Settings] Priority=Default Properties=MyCustomProperty [Default] OSInstall=YES SkipAdminPassword=YES SkipApplications=YES SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES SkipBDDWelcome=YES SkipBitLocker=YES SkipCapture=YES SkipComputerName=No SkipComputerBackup=YES SkipDeploymentType=YES



DeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER SkipDomainMembership=YES JoinDomain=Demo DomainAdmin=administrator DomainAdminDomain= Demo DomainAdminPassword=******* SkipFinalSummary=No SkipLocaleSelection=YES KeyboardLocale=en-GB UserLocale=en-GB UILanguage=en-GB SkipPackageDisplay=YES SkipProductKey=YES SkipSummary=YES SkipTaskSequence=NO SkipTimeZone=YES TimeZone=085 TimeZoneName=Greenwich Standard Time SkipUserData=Yes

I hope this article helps with your OS deployments using MDT 2010 I will try to keep the blog

updated on the latest MDT improvements.

Update

On 15th July 2010 Microsoft released update 1 for MDT 2010 I have applied this update and the

good news is all still works you can download from

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Dave Coleman

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