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Subject: Physical topology for MDT Zero Touch
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05/13/2008 5:05 PM  
I need to begin planning for an eventual Vista deployment and would like to begin re-engineering the deployment infrastucture that we have using MDT (which I can use to maintain our current XP environment as well). Ideally, I would want to have a dedicated deployment server with MDT installed seperate from our existing SMS 2003 site server so I can begin experimenting with Lite Touch with the option to convert to Zero Touch down the line. My question is this: is there any way to integtate a seperate dedicated MDT "deployment server" with an SMS 2003 site server for Zero-Touch or does MDT and SMS (with OSD Feature Pack) need to reside on the same physical server in order to Zero Touch to work properly?
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05/30/2008 4:48 AM  
We use a virtual Windows Server 2003 SP1 for WDS and MDT 2008. Our SMS 2003 SP2 Server with OSD is installed on a physical server hardware. This works fine. You do not have to install MDT 2008 on your SMS server. We will never change our running SMS 2003 environment excepting the hardware breaks down. Please read the whitepaper "Client Build and Deployment Lab Setup" by Richard Smith.
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