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MDT 2012 provides a common console with comprehensive tools and guidance for every organizational role—making it the recommended process and toolset to automate large-scale desktop and server deployments. Learn more.

New! Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Now Available!

New features and enhancements make large-scale desktop and server deployments smoother than ever with new features, such as:

  • New support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
  • Integration with Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 7 (DaRT) and Security Compliance Manager (SCM)
  • Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a lab environment
  • Support for Windows Server 2012 Beta

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 with Michael Niehaus
Michael Niehaus from the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) team chats with Symon Perriman about the upcoming MDT 2012 release and improvement around desktop and server deployments, "zero-touch" installations and integration with System Center Configuration Manager 2012.

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Ensure a secure Windows Server 2012 Beta deployment with MDT 2012!
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TechNet Radio: How to Slipstream IE9 into an MDT, Windows 7 migration
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TechNet Radio: Say hello to MDT 2012
Ready to meet the new face of MDT? Senior SDE Michael Niehaus discusses the evolution of MDT and gives a preview of the toolkit’s new features, including support for System Center Configuration Manage... more

Webcasts and Videos

P2V Migration for Software Assurance Beta with Jeremy Chapman
Watch Jeremy Chapman demonstrate Microsoft P2V Migration for Software Assurance by walking through the management console and showing us what the experience looks from the user’s perspective.

Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Using MDT 2010
Learn how to build media that will automatically migrate computers from Windows XP to Windows 7 with user data, custom applications and drivers.

Tools to plan and deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Learn how Solution Accelerators can help you make sense of the many deployment tools for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Get the answers to common questions, such as which tool is right for your environment and what are limitations of each tool?

Building install media for Windows 7 with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Jeremy Chapman gives a quick tour of the MDT, showing how to create the install media that makes the magic happen.

MDT Blogs

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Troubleshooting MDT 2012 Monitoring
I mentioned a while back that I wanted to do a blog post talking about how to troubleshoot the new MDT 2012 monitoring feature for Lite Touch deployme... more

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Still need MDT 2010 Update 1?
If you missed the announcement, MDT 2012 was released last week. At that point, the Download Center was updated so that the main MDT download is now ... more

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Run command line as domain user – Incorrect Function Error
When deploying Windows clients using Configuration Manager 2007 and MDT 2010 Update 1, there is often a requirement to run task sequence actions as a ... more

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The unattend answer file contains an invalid product key
Hello:I am using MDT 2010 trying to deploy Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. We have our KMS server up and running just for a little background. I keep g... more
Failed to run syspref "Test for CloneTag in registry to verify Sysprep completed"
Hi All After install windows 7 and some application i try to capture and sysypref from running script cscript \\server\DeploymentShare\Scripts\LiteTou... more
ZTIValidate error during deployment
I have an XP SP3 image that's deploying successfully on a number of machines but fails on one with the following error:TSManager 11/10/2010 4:11:36 P... more
MDT 2012 EFI PC Needs Non-EFI setup
We have some new desktops that use EFI and MDT 2012 supports that and we created a deployment that works fine with EFI.However, when we tried to depl... more
Telephony being disable in WIndows XP image causes problem.
I am creating a custom WIndows XP image for a stand along computer that won't be attached to any network, just machinary. One of the requirements is t... more

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