{"id":13342,"date":"2012-08-17T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2012-08-17T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:18:25","slug":"use-mdt-2012-update-1-to-deploy-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13342","title":{"rendered":"Use MDT 2012 Update 1 To Deploy Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=25175&amp;ocid=aff-n-we-loc--ITPRO40886&amp;WT.mc_id=aff-n-we-loc--ITPRO40886\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1 with support for deploying images of Windows 8 and WS2012.&#160; It also supports Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>New features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Added support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CTP: Added support in MDT for deploying Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 CTP, while supporting all new Configuration Manager functionality (offline BitLocker, UEFI, and Assessment and Deployment Kit). <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support for DaRT 8 Beta: Updated MDT to support DaRT 8 for Windows 8 deployments, while continuing to support DaRT 7 for Windows 7 deployments. Added DaRT support for Configuration Manager scenarios. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>New \u201cBuild Your Own Pages\u201d User-Driven Installation (UDI) feature: Enhanced the UDI wizard and designer to enable IT pros to design their own wizard pages with little effort. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>New System Center 2012 &#8211; Orchestrator support: Provided the ability to add steps into an OS deployment task sequence to execute Orchestrator runbooks as part of the deployment process. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Other improvements: Added support for Windows PowerShell 3.0, reworked Roles and Features installation logic for Windows 8, improved \u201cboot from VHD\u201d deployment scenarios, and added support for Configuration Manager monitoring.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if you want to deploy the new operating systems then don\u2019t do sneaker net. Don\u2019t go buy a third party imaging solution.&#160; This is a free, task sequence based imaging solution.&#160; And your investment will continue when\/if you deploy System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with SP1 because of the integration it has with MDT.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:630d40fb-7217-4124-8ed7-da66a7b6a666\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1 with support for deploying images of Windows 8 and WS2012.&#160; It also supports Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP. New features include: Added support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. 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