Transcript SESSION CODE: CLI313 Michael Niehaus Senior Software Development Engineer Microsoft WHAT’S NEW IN MDT 2012? (c) 2011 Microsoft.

SESSION CODE: CLI313
Michael Niehaus
Senior Software Development Engineer
Microsoft
WHAT’S NEW IN MDT 2012?
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MDT 2012
An introduction
► New release to ride the System Center 2012 “wave”
– Adding support for Configuration Manager 2012 and all of
its new OS deployment capabilities
► Providing enhancements for all existing customers
– Lite Touch
– Zero Touch
– User Driven Installation
► Laying the foundation for the next version of
Windows
MDT 2012
Timeline
► Beta 1 is now available to everyone from
http://connect.microsoft.com
– Solution Accelerator connection, Microsoft Deployment program
– Please download and provide feedback, either directly or through Connect
► Beta 2 is expected in October, with release shortly after
ConfigMgr 2012 RTM
MDT 2012
Beta 1 Features
► Support for ConfigMgr 2012
– New app model support (in TS and database)
– Integration with the new console (wizards, task
sequence actions)
– Support for new pre-execution hook (automate TS
selection)
MDT 2012 and
ConfigMgr 2012
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MDT 2012
Beta 1 Features
► Infrastructure enhancements
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Deploy to VHD support
Support for Windows ThinPC and Windows POSReady 7
Cross-platform deployment (x64 OS from x86 Windows PE)
Improved Lite Touch wizard look-and-feel
Additional progress displays
Partitioning and user state migration improvements
Full support for UEFI, 4K disks
Bug fixes, supportability enhancements, etc.
MDT 2012
Beta 1 Features
► Continued support for old operating systems
– Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
– Change of plans since first discussed at TechReady 12
► Continued support for ConfigMgr 2007
– (MDT OEM task sequence templates for ConfigMgr
will be removed)
MDT 2012 Lite Touch
Wizards
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Senior SDE
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MDT 2012
Beta 1 Known Issues
► Lite Touch
– Deployment share upgrades flatten logical folder structure
– Static IP configuration isn’t in the right place for bare metal
deployments
– Deployment logic doesn’t always pick the proper partition
– User state migration may fail when multiple partitions are
present
► ConfigMgr
– Deployment logic doesn’t always pick the proper partition
– Volume choice in the UDI wizard is ignored
– UDI Wizard designer does not recognize the presence of the
ConfigMgr 2012 console
– Boot image generation fails if the ConfigMgr 2012 console isn’t
running elevated
MDT 2012
Beta 2 Features
► New User Driven Installation Components
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New UDI Wizard Designer
Extensible wizard
Support for selecting ConfigMgr 2012 applications
(No more web service)
► Full Windows Recovery Environment support
► MDOP functionality
– Integration of DaRT 7 (including remote control)
– Support for App-V
► PowerShell support in the task sequences
► Offline user state migration for Lite Touch
MDT 2012 Beta 2 and
DaRT
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Senior SDE
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MDT 2012
Beta 2 Features
► “RunOnce” task sequence execution
► Improved cleanup from failed or interrupted task
sequences
► Monitoring
► Image Factory
► Error recovery and retry
MDT 2012 Beta 2
Monitoring
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Senior SDE
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MDT 2012
Beta 2 Potential Features
► Replace “Components” tab with community
content
► Security improvements
► And maybe more…
► Suggestions?
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