Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 U1 Meets Orchestrator

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DMVMUG User Conference 2013 – Reston, VA

Rhonda Layfield

30 + years in IT 6x Setup & Deployment MVP International Presenter Trainer Consultant @DeploymentDr.com www.DeploymentDr.com

MDT 2012 Update 1 Overview “What’s New”• New to MDT 2012• New OSs Supported• New Features• New Deployment Wizard• Monitoring Clients• Remote Control• GPO Packs• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)• MST 2012 Update 1

New OSs Supported• MDT Now Supports Deploying ThinPC and POSReady• ThinPC – Embedded Standard Win7• 1GHz Processor• 1GB RAM• 16GB Hard Disk Space• Citrix or Terminal Services Client

• POSReady• Point of Sales – Cash Registers

New Features• New Create Deployment Share Wizard• Quicker and Easier

• Deployment Share Properties• More Streamlined

• Run PowerShell 2.0 Scripts Within a Task Sequence• IsOnBattery• Image Factory Can Create .wim or .vhd Images• Vhd Can Be Deployed Via Virtual Machine Manager as Templates to Create

New Virtual Machines• New Deployment Wizard

New Deployment Wizard• The Deployment Wizard Has Been Completely Restructured• DeployWiz_Definition_ENU.xml• DeployWiz_Initialization.vbs• DeployWiz_Validation.vbs

• Separate Files for Each Wizard Pane• DeployWiz_ComputerName.xml• DeployWiz_ComputerName.vbs

• The Original Files Still Exist in the DS• DeployWiz_Definition_ENU.xml is Much Smaller Because the Content Has

Been Separated into the New Files• It is Now Easier to Make Changes to a Single Pane Without Affecting Others

DEMODeployment Shares

Monitoring and Remote Control

Monitoring Clients• Disabled by Default• Easy to Enable• Monitored by a New Service• MDT_Monitor• Display Name = Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Monitor Service

• SQL Compact 3.5• Application Log (Event Viewer)

Remote Control• Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset – DaRT• DaRT 8 Supported for Windows 8• DaRT 7 Still Supported for Windows 7

• Normally Considered a Recovery Tool; the Diagnostics Tools Are Awesome• But It’s Not Easy to Find• Download:• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)• DaRT is one of the tools you’ll be getting

Remote Control• Install DaRT on MDT Server• Get the Correct tools.cab• X86• X64

• Copy tools.cab into your Deployment Share• Add DaRT to Your Deployment Share• Update Deployment Share

Group Policy Packs

GPOs and Security• Group Policies are Normally Applied when a Machine

Joins a Domain• But There Can Be Times when You Want the GPOs

Deployed with the New Image• 4 GPO Packs Are Built into MDT 2012

Default GPO Packs• Windows 7 SP1• Win7SP1-MDTGPOPack

• Windows Vista SP2• WinVistaSP2-MDTGPOPack

• Windows 2008 SP2• WS2008R2SP1-MDTGPOPack

• Windows 2008 R2 SP1• WS2008SP2-MDTGPOPack

Customize GPO Packs• GPO Packs Are Deployed by Default Based on the OS You

Are Deploying• You Can Also Create Your Own GPO Packs• Security Compliance Manager• dot Net 4.0 Required

• Dump Existing Settings from a Machine• Or Decide Not to Use GPO Packs at All

DEMOGPO Packs

UEFI

UEFI• Full Support of UEFI• Intels Replacement for PC BIOS• Supports Bootable GUID Partitions• 4 K Misalignment Has Been Resolved• Secure Boot

GUID Partition Tables (GPT)• MBR Partition Tables Restricted Disk Partition Sizes to a

Maximum of 2.19 TB• MBR Supports Only 4 Partitions• 4 Primary• 3 Primary and 1 Extended (Break It Up Into Logicals)

• GPT Allows a Maximum Disk and Partition Size of 9.4 ZB• 1 Zettabyte = 1 Billion Terabytes• Supports Up to 128 Volumes

4K Misalignment Resolved• Legacy Drives Support 512-Byte Physical Sectors • Windows OSs Use 4K Logical Block Sizes• Virtual Memory Pages and File Systems Like NTFS

512 512 512 512512 512 512 512 512 512 512 512

4K

Sector Overhead• Data• ID Information• Identify Each Sector by Number and Location

• A Single Bit is Used to Indicate if the Sector Has Been Marked Defective

• Synchronization Fields• Find the Next Piece of a File

• Error Correcting Code (ECC)• Ensure Data Integrity

• Gaps or Spacers• Separate Sector Areas and Gives the Controller Time to Process What Has Been Read Before Moving

on to Process More Data

522 518 524 520 524 516 518 518

4K

What’s the Problem? The Fix• The Result is Degraded Performance• 10% – 30%

• The Fix is for Hardware and OSs to Both Read at a 4K Sector Size• 4K Sector Sizes are Not Supported for XP• But They are in WinPE 3.0 and Later

MDT 2012 Update 1

Which MDT 2012 Update 1 Should You Use• The First MDT 2012 Update 1 • Version 6.1.2369.0• August 16, 2012• Added Support for SCCM 2012, Windows 8, and Windows Server

2012• The Second MDT 2012 Update 1• Version 6.1.2373.0• On Download Page it is Version 6.1.1• September 19, 2012• Added Support for SCCM 2012 CU1 and SCCM 2012 SP1

New to Update 1• System Center 2012 Orchestrator Runbooks Can Be Run

as a Task in a Task Sequence• PowerShell 3.0 Supported• The Roles and Features for Windows 8 Installation Logic

Has Been Improved • Boot from VHD is Easier• New Support for Configuration Manager Monitoring

Orchestrator

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