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 #6: Drag and drop

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.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 19:27 and is filed under Deployment, MDT 2010. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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 :)

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