Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 RTM now available

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

Solution Accelerators

Today, Microsoft have released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012. I hosts a world of new features and improvements. My favourites are the ability to hide the GUI during deployments and the Validation check fix when deploying to Virtual Machines.

You can download it from the Microsoft Download Centre here.

What’s New in This Release?

  • Integration with Security Compliance Manager Templates
  • Run Windows PowerShell Scripts in Task Sequences
  • Automated Participation in CEIP and WER
  • Improved Guidance for Using SQL Server 2008 R2 with SP1
  • Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 Beta
  • Support for the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK).
  • Monitoring of LTI deployment process.
  • Deployment of Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).
  • Deployment of Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).
  • Deployment to computers that use the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
  • Deployment to computers that require GUID Partition Table (GPT) format.
  • Deployment to virtual hard disks (VHDs) for native boot
  • Support for Windows Thin PC.
  • Support for Windows Embedded POSReady 7
  • Add local administrator accounts wizard step.
  • Deployment Wizard user experience improvements.
  • Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.

What’s Been Removed from This Release?

  • Support for prerelease versions of Configuration Manager 2012
  • Support for installation of MDT on Windows Server 2003
  • Support for installation of MDT on Windows Vista
  • Support for installation of MDT on Windows XP
  • Support for Windows Deployment Services running on Windows Server 2003
  • Original equipment manufacturer task sequence templates from ZTI (Instead, use the prestaged media capabilities in Configuration Manager 2012 and Configuration Manager 2007 R3.)

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3 Responses to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 RTM now available

  1. Cláudio Gonçalves says:
    April 28, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    Basic and quick question, It’s possible o use MDT 2012 and UDI only? Without SCCM or ConfigMgr?
    If yes, how can I integrate both?

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  2. Mike H says:
    August 3, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    Hey….any idea how to use the new step mentioned above for “Add local administrator accounts wizard”? I’m on MDT 2012 RTM (no update 1 until its official)

    We normally do 2 things when we would manually create a PC:
    1. Add a policy group to the machine in AD.
    2. Add a “jde local admin” group for some of our developers to local administrator account.

    I can’t really figure out how to do either of these in the deployment part, or I’m missing some documentation. Having these would eliminate any manual steps that we normally go through.

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