{"id":15818,"date":"2013-12-16T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15818"},"modified":"2013-12-16T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:20:32","slug":"powershell-deployment-toolkit-pdt-for-system-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15818","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell Deployment Toolkit (PDT) For System Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes time to deploy System Center.  It takes a long time to deploy the entire suite.  So you can imagine that I only ever (if that) have bits of System Center deployed.  That\u2019s why it was great to see that Microsoft\u2019s Rob Willis had written a \u201chydration\u201d kit to deploy a complete System Center demo<\/em><\/u><\/strong> environment using PowerShell scripts and XML metadata files called the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I want to stress that word: DEMO<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.  This kit is not to be used for deploying a production system.  Out of the so-called-box (a zip file really) it deploys an architecture that should never ever be used in production.  It\u2019s designed to be able to run on a laptop (a large one) and it does things that any System Center expert would choke at.  But it will deploy, with very little effort, an environment that is fit for performing demonstrations.<\/p>\n

In the zip you\u2019ll find a few files:<\/p>\n