Vista deployment project using MDT

Ron Kasbohm, director of technology services for Township High School, tells us about their environment, reasons they decided to move from XP to Vista, challenges they encountered, benefits gained, and also a demo of how they deployed Vista using the Microsoft Desktop Toolkit (MDT) utilizing the Light Touch Interface.

Here’s how it breaks down:

[0:35] Initial motivation to roll out Vista

[0:54] Challenges & solutions they had in deploying Vista - Active X controller & "Approved Servers" in Vista Point and Print Security (whitepaper) 

[1:54] How often they get UAC prompts

[2:25] Benefits of using Vista now in their environment

[3:24] – How they deployed Vista in their environment
Ron walks through their usage of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), including: the desktop deployment workbench, the PXE boot image, and Light Touch interface (LTI).

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