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Microsoft Releases the MDT 2008
Microsoft announces the release of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008. This release is an update to Microsoft Deployment, which the company previously released in November 2007.
 
Microsoft Deployment Released
Microsoft announced the official release of Microsoft Deployment. It's is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment 2007 and is the fourth generation deployment solution accelerator, enabling server and desktop deployment.
 
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Deployment Forum Webcasts Improved, Friday, April 18, 2008
After receiving your feedback about the quality of our webcasts, we've given up on flash video and are now streaming pure .wmv files. The quality is substantially better and the text is easier to read. Also, each webcast now launches in a standalone Windows Media Player window so you can control the experience. read more ...

Share Your Deployment Experiences, Thursday, April 03, 2008
Deployment Forum gives you a place to tell the world how you feel about Windows deployment, show how clever you are, or simply journal your path through the deployment landscape. Create your own blog on Deployment Forum. read more ...

Springboard Series for Windows Vista, Thursday, December 06, 2007
Microsoft published the first edition of its Springboard Series for Windows Vista. The Springboard series guides you through recommended experiences, content, and resources for various stages of your Windows Vista deployment. read more ...

Featured Webcasts
Using MDT 2008 for LTI
Richard Smith demonstrates how to use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 to build and deploy images by using Lite Touch Installation. Topics includ...
Using MDT 2008 and SCCM 2007 for ZTI
Richard Smith demonstrates how to use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to build and deploy images by...
Featured Content
Group Policy Preferences Overview
This white paper introduces Group Policy preferences, a feature new in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and describes how you can use Group Policy prefe...
 
Client Build and Deployment Lab Setup
Building a client with minimum user interaction is an interim goal of many projects. The build method chosen must have the ability to rebuil...
 
MDT 2008 upgrade
After upgrading to MDT 2008 from the old deployment workbench any new task sequences I create fail.  The old ones still work fine but new ones fail.  I attached a screen shot of the error I am getting.  Has any...
 
Powershell installation (Vista)
Hi, I have followed the instructions on page 11 of Image Customisation Guide to install Powershell but I get an error 1008 returned in the bdd.log. The wusa command will run from a command line after the image has deployed....
 
XP SP3- New Sysprep
Michael N posted this the other day on his website http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/archive/2008/05/14/need-new-sysprep-for-windows-xp-sp3.aspx I just built XP task sequence using XP SP2 vol licensed media and then adding ...
 
Is it possibleto hidethe task sequence window?
As the title suggests... I have written some testing scripts with autoit that install 4 applications from the $OEM$ folders which run as an "Install apps" script afterthe install of vista. I know the scripts work ...
 
Installing MDT 2008 - Vista SP1
When installing the MDT 2008 MSI (MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit_x86.msi) I receive the following error: "Before you can install the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you must install Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0" An...
 
WDS Service needs to be constantly restarted
Hi All, I have WDS in mixed mode. I have a big problem. Everything works fine but for some reason the service needs to be constantly restarted if I need to image a computer. I get some kind of Boot\BCD file cannot be found. ...
 
Can't block Windows Update
Greetings, I'm using WAIK in a VMWare ESX 3.5 environment to create images for our lab (and ultimately for production). I've got two nagging issues that I can't seem to resolve. The first issue is that I can't seem to disab...
 
Loadstate ran from normal user account or admin?
Should loadstate be ran as an administrator or can it be ran from a normal user account?  Is it possible to add an admin switch in the script so that loadstate can be executed from a normal user account?  Or is it r...
 
Migrating Files
From my understanding USMT migrates files that it is told to migrate. We have a lot of miscellaneous application and it is hard to keep up with the file extensions associated with these apps, so I would like USMT to copy...
 
Empty Notification Box during Deploy
I am trying to deploy an XP.wim image that I successfully captured to my 2008 WDS server.  However when I try to deploy it via network boot using F12, the machine loads into the PXE GUI, but then pops up a notification b...
 
Cisco VPN Client 4.8
Hi All, I am looking to create a simple package and program for Cisco VPN Client. The problem is that as part of theinstall, the application disconnects the network interface for a moment and installs it's own virtual ad...
 
Silent Install Tricks
Does anyone know any useful silent install tricks? Rich
 
Determine Office 2003 Service Pack
Does anybody know how to reliably find the Office 2003 Service Pack version, via a script and  preferably the registry? The value in the Uninstall key does not provide consistent results.  There was a KB article (w...
 
Software Applications with Multiple CDs
Here's one for that I can't figure out. Has anyone been sucessful at adding programs like MS Visual Studio 2005 or any applications that have multiple install cds to MS Deployment/BDD?  MS Mappoint is another one that h...
 
Remember Login Broken?
Each time I visit this web site I have to provide my credentials. No biggie but if the "Remember Login"  check box on the login page does nothing, why keep it?
 

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