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Inside a ConfigMgr 2012 OS Deployment Task Sequence Michael Niehaus Senior Program Manager, Solution Accelerator Team [email protected] 17 November 2011 Moderated by: Sponsored by: Agenda • Welcome: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum • Overview: BDNA & myITforum • Michael Niehaus, Microsoft – Inside a ConfigMgr 2012 OS Deployment Task Sequence • Wrap Up: Ron Crumbaker, CTO, myITforum Google+ Hangouts & Forums • Reed Porter Google+ Hangout: http://bit.ly/vHshQC • myITforum SCCM GURU webcast live forum http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™ Walker White CTO, B|DNA ConfigMgr MORE INFO: Matt Lefer - [email protected] myITforum Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum • All things “System Center” • Since 1999 • Large and growing community (over 120,000 visitors a day) • Huge storehouse of System Center knowledge • Noobies to experts Michael Niehaus • Senior software development engineer in Microsoft’s Solution Accelerator Team. • Lead developer for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a free collection of tools and guidance for deploying Windows and Office faster and more efficiently. • Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, Michael spent his entire career in enterprise IT, focused on deploying and managing Microsoft software. Agenda • What’s New – ConfigMgr 2012 OSD – MDT 2012 Beta 2 • Inside an OS deployment task sequence – What’s not new – Stepping through the process • Q&A What’s New: ConfigMgr 2012 OS Deployment • Boot image improvements – – – • Task sequence improvements – – – • Options for how to handle duplicates Improved PXE distribution point scalability – • Apply Windows updates to existing OS image packages Driver import improvements – • Preconfigure User Device Affinity Support for new application model Enhancements to user state migration steps Offline servicing for OS images – • Hierarchy-wide boot media Unattended OS installation Prestart command hooks Potentially every DP can provide PXE services 64-bit task sequence engine – Everything is now 64-bit on 64-bit OSes, including the task sequence engine What’s New: MDT 2012 Beta 2 • Support for Configuration Manager 2012 RC1 – Still supports ConfigMgr 2007 too, but not earlier versions of ConfigMgr 2012 • New User Driven Installation components – Extensible Wizard, Designer – No more web service • Improved partitioning logic – Create partition structure based on OS being deployed – Always deploy new OS to the same partition as the existing one when refreshing • New support for PowerShell scripts in a task sequence – Integrate with task sequence environment – Capture output into BDD.LOG and progress to UI • Many other small enhancements and bug fixes – Additional user state flexibility • Lite Touch enhancements too… MDT 2012: Call to Action • Try out MDT 2012 Beta 2 now! – Sign up for Connect via http://aka.ms/MDTBeta if you haven’t already – Download the beta and install it in your lab – Provide feedback through the Connect website • Be ready to implement once ConfigMgr 2012 is generally available – H1 calendar year 2012 – MDT 2012 will release at the same time as ConfigMgr 2012 Inside a Task Sequence: What’s Not New • Few changes in the task sequence engine – The mechanics and behaviors are the same, regardless of product • ConfigMgr 2007, ConfigMgr 2012, MDT Lite Touch) – Just some minor bug fixes and higher-level changes (e.g. new actions) • So this session is more about the way the engine works – How each step is started – How configuration details are passed to each step – What actually does the work Inside a Task Sequence: Stepping Through the Process • TSManager manages the process: – Choose the next enabled step whose conditions are satisfied – Set local task sequence variables defined for the step (but only if global variables aren’t set) – Execute the command line for the step – Evaluate the results (return code, continue on error settings) – Repeat • So let’s walk through a running task sequence, step-bystep – A typical MDT-created ConfigMgr task sequence, with a few tweaks so that we can interrupt the process… Q&A • Become a fan of MDT – http://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit • Contact Microsoft Support – Have all logs ready, they’ll ask for them • Use the “MDT” and ConfigMgr OSD forums on TechNet: – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mdt – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrosd – Post your error messages, or even logs • Use the MDTOSD mailing list – Hosted by http://www.myitforum.com • E-mail me directly at [email protected] – Have some patience Questions ??? Wrap Up Next SCCM GURU Webcast: • Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 • Wally Mead, SCCM Expert, Microsoft www.bdna.com/sccm-guru Thanks for attending! To thank you for participating in our SCCM GURU webcast, we’d like to offer EVERYONE on the webcast a super cool SCCM GURU Webcast T-shirt. Please register here: www.bdna.com/michael SCCM GURU T-shirt Contest Get your GURU on (literally!) and win a Kindle Fire! 1. Take a photo of yourself wearing your SCCM GURU T-shirt (being creative, of course) 2. In your myITforum account, post the photo to your personal photo gallery (or other blog or twitter account). 3. Tweet the link to your photo and include the #sccmguru hash tag. • Contest ends Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time • WINNER will be announced Wed, Dec 7, 2011 during the Wally Mead SCCM GURU Webcast Questions, Contact Info For more information… BDNA Matt Lefer [email protected] +1 (650) 641-6017 myITforum Rod Trent [email protected] +1 (513) 217-7122