1. What’s New in MDT
2012?
( C ) 2 0 1 1 MI C R O S O F T . A L L R I G H T S
RESERVED.

2. MDT 2012
AN INTRODUCTION
 New release to ride the System Center 2012 “wave”
 Adding support for Configuration Manager 2012 and all of its new OS
deployment capabilities
 Providing enhancements for all existing customers
 Lite Touch
 Zero Touch
 User Driven Installation
 Laying the foundation for the next version of Windows 8 ????

3. MDT 2012
TIMELINE
 Beta 2 is now available to everyone from
 https://connect.microsoft.com/site14/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?
DownloadID=8689

4. MDT 2012
BETA 2 FEATURES
 Support for ConfigMgr 2012
 New app model support (in TS and database)
 Integration with the new console (wizards, task sequence actions)
 Support for new pre-execution hook (automate TS selection)

5. MDT 2012 AND
CONFIGMGR 2012
Ward Vissers
Microsoft/VMware Engineer
Ictivity

6. MDT 2012
BETA 2 FEATURES
 Infrastructure enhancements
 Deploy to VHD support
 Support for Windows ThinPC and Windows POSReady 7
 Cross-platform deployment (x64 OS from x86 Windows PE)
 Improved Lite Touch wizard look-and-feel
 Additional progress displays (Windows Updates )
 Partitioning and user state migration improvements
 Full support for UEFI, 4K disks
 Bug fixes, supportability enhancements, etc.

7. MDT 2012
BETA 2 FEATURES
 Continued support for old operating systems
 Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
 Continued support for ConfigMgr 2007
 (MDT OEM task sequence templates for ConfigMgr will be removed)

8. MDT 2012 LITE TOUCH
WIZARDS
Ward Vissers
Microsoft/VMware Engineer
Ictivity

9. MDT 2012
BETA 2 FEATURES
 New User Driven Installation Components
 New UDI Wizard Designer
 Extensible wizard
 Support for selecting ConfigMgr 2012 applications
 Full Windows Recovery Environment support
 MDOP functionality
 Integration of DaRT 7 (including remote control)
 Support for App-V
 PowerShell support in the task sequences
 Offline user state migration for Lite Touch
 “RunOnce” task sequence execution
 Improved cleanup from failed or interrupted task
sequences
 Monitoring

10. MDT 2012 BETA 2 AND
DART
Ward Vissers
Microsoft/VMware Engineer
Ictivity

11. MDT 2012
BETA 2 FEATURES

12. MDT 2012
BETA 2 FEATURES

13. MDT 2012 BETA 2
MONITORING
Ward Vissers
Microsoft/VMware Engineer
Ictivity

14. MDT 2012
BETA 2 MONITORING

15. MDT 2012
BETA 2 MONITORING

16. MDT 2012 BETA 2 HIDE
SHELL
Ward Vissers
Microsoft/VMware Engineer
Ictivity

17. MDT 2012
BETA 2 MONITORING
HIDESHELL=YES

18. MDT 2012 BETA 2 IS IT
PRODUCTION
READY???
Ward Vissers
Microsoft/VMware Engineer
Ictivity

19. MDT 2012
PRODUCTION READY?????
YES!!!!!!!!!