Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Lite Touch Video Walkthrough
Are you struggling with setting up MDT Lite Touch? - I have created a video walkthrough that shows you how to:
- Add operating systems, applications, drivers and packages to MDT
- Configure Office 2007 into the build process
- Create a MDT Lite Touch task sequence
- Setup a lab based deployment point
- Create a customised build to a reference computer
- Capture the reference computer as a customised WIM
- Add the customised WIM back into MDT for deployment
View the MDT Lite Touch Video Walkthrough from the Windows Media Servers here!
View the MDT Lite Touch Video Walkthrough from the TechNet Edge Media Servers here !
This post was contributed by Richard Smith a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services, UK.
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
@Jon Solan Hi Jon, No, WDS is not a requirement to use MDT. You only need WDS if you plan on PXE-booting the machines to do a network deployment without any existing SMS/ConfigMgr infrastructure. HTH, DanielAnonymous
January 01, 2003
Richard Smith vient de publier une vidéo (en anglais) sur le blog des deployment guys presentant un scénarioAnonymous
January 01, 2003
Hi Jibu, I would strongly recommend that you do not change the MDT DB. This will cause issues if you ever want to upgrade. There is also no way to any custom fields in the deployment workbench. Instead I would use the “spare” fields that MDT provides. The fields are SERVERA and SERVERB. So simply assign the values to these spare fields and then reference them in the wizard or scripts. Thanks, BenAnonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
i have installed MDT 2008 is there a difference between MDT 2008 and MDT Lite touch. The problem i am having is i installed office 2003, visio and project 2003 and I dont get the office product TAB in application to configure office. is there another software for me to download to see this tab. mat717Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I am not sure whether this is the right place to post my question. In order to suit our deployment activities, we have created an additional wizard screen. We need to show an additional property (say SkipCustomWizard) within the database property tab (computer, roles, Location and Make & Model). I have created additional column in the “dbo.settings” table for SkipCustomWizard and refreshed the views too. I can see the new property in the view, but not able to bring into the "details" tab of database properties. Is there a way to do this? Please help. Thanks -JibuAnonymous
January 01, 2003
Did anyone get Windows MDT 2010 to deploy Windows XP SP2 successfully? Getting this error no matter what I try :( http://img69.imageshack.us/i/dumberror.png/Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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March 13, 2008
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March 13, 2008
Best and most portable deployment demos ever! You do good work.Anonymous
March 13, 2008
The download link worked for me. I have a somewhat silly question. Has anyone ever tried to use MDT in conjunction with Visual Source Safe? Currently have it set up like that and now I am running into problems. I personally don't want VSS on the server, but my boss is saying otherwise. Has anyone ever tried to use BDD2007 or earlier versions with VSS 2005?Anonymous
April 24, 2008
Quick and perhaps silly question, but do i need to install WDS in order to use MDT? I've downloaded the 1.1 waik, insatlled the MDT, but the documentation doesnt say if i need to install windows deployment services, or if MDT alone is able to handle pxe booting or boot from wim? any ideas? thanksAnonymous
May 05, 2008
Great video.... thanks... Ricardo Gaspar PortugalAnonymous
May 13, 2008
Thanks for the video!! It cleared up many questions and issues. I only wish the video was a little longer and that we drilled down into the customizing task sequences.Anonymous
July 15, 2008
I am having problems deploying an XP image using MDT 2008 / WDS. It is taking hours to copy the Windows Source files across to two clients. Can you offer anywhere to look to speed things up?Anonymous
October 08, 2008
Here is the situation, I've loaded MDT 2008 and updated it to 4.2 without issue on my desktop. However, when I created the same thing on a server copying the distribution share plus added a few new wim images. I get a bad pool error when i go to run the lite touch installation. It gets pass the loading phase but when the scrolling green bars pass 2 times, I get the error. I've double checked everything and it seems to be in order. On another note I went back to the desktop loaded the new wim from the server and burned a new disk and I got the bad pool error again. I really don't understand how or what is happening. But what I do know is that for my state of mind I used the orginal desktop disk I burned to use on the desktop and it boots and loads all of the wim's, but I need it to work on the server to get it off of my workstation. Any ideas???Anonymous
October 14, 2008
how would i know if i have the mdt lite touch, is the mdt 2008 the same or is it different. I installed mdt 2008 and i am having an issue when configuring the office application. i installed office 2003, visio 2003 and project 2003 and i dont see the office TAB to configure the license or the setup of officeAnonymous
October 14, 2008
Great video walkthrough. Helped me with the last little bit that I was missing, now its running great.Anonymous
January 20, 2009
great video wish i would have watched it last week!!Anonymous
January 23, 2009
Great Video, I am looking for more information on the next steps. Is there a guide to explain how to deploy the final image? Can this be done zero touch with MDT or do i have to get SCCM? I notice that there were no instructions on using the MDT database. Could someone point me in the direction of how to use the database and what it is for?Anonymous
February 02, 2009
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February 03, 2009
I use MDT and have a network deploymetn point- but it's on the same machine as the MDT, it's just a separate share. If you're running Vista you can a whole pc backup to an external drive to back up the pc that's running MDT, in case of failure.Anonymous
January 11, 2010
If that device is the NIC then you don't have the correct driver for WINpe.Vista driver is needed- not sure about MDT 2010 - still using 2008...Anonymous
January 26, 2010
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January 29, 2010
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February 05, 2010
Hi what is the user name and password am suposed to use to view the video help urgentlyAnonymous
January 24, 2014
Hi, Is there a way to create an exportable MDT. We have multiples sites and we would like to have a copy of our MDT (packages and task sequences) in specific sitesAnonymous
November 23, 2014
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