New features in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
MDT 2010 was released September 9th 2009.
Michael Niehaus from Microsoft`s Deployment Team has posted an excellent series of blog posts describing the new features:
New Feature #1: Logging directly to the network
New Feature #2: Gathering virtualization details
New Feature #3: Suspend and resume a Lite Touch task sequence
New Feature #4: Folders everywhere
New Feature #5: Support for multiple deployment shares
New Feature #7: Boot image creation optimized
New Feature #8: No more visible command windows when booting Lite Touch Windows PE
New Feature #9: Copy and paste support in the Deployment Workbench task sequence editor
New Feature #10: Detection of signed drivers
New Feature #11: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support
New Feature #12: USMT 4.0 hardlink support
New Feature #13: New task sequence templates
New Feature #14: Database improvements
New Feature #15: Finish actions
New Feature #16: PowerShell support
New Feature #17: Customizable boot image process
New Feature #18: Selection Profiles
New Feature #19: Improved Driver Management
Other interesting posts on Michael`s blog:
Running PowerShell scripts as part of a task sequence
Automatically update MDT 2010 boot images in WDS
For those who are working with MDT I would also recommend to follow the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Team`s blog.
Be aware of the following bug described on their blog:Fix for ‘Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed” problem with MDT 2010
The Deployment Guys` blog are also an excellent resource.
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Need to take a look at this one still using RIS for my WinXP/W2K3 Build, Need to get my Win7 Builds up and running 
