Introduction to MDT 2012 (MDT 2012: Module-1)

Learning Windows Deployment Tools 2012 can be overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be. Your choices are Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 (MDT 2012), Windows Deployment Service (WDS) or System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM). Don’t waste time implementing the wrong tool or making common mistakes. Introduction to MDT 2012, In this session you’ll learn how to create and deploy your images using the MDT 2012 (yes it’s brand new and cooler than ever). Making changes to your images is easier than ever whether your changing the version of an application or the operating system to be deployed it’s a snap. Running deployments using the default settings works just fine but can sometimes be redundant answering the same questions over and over again. Automating the deployments let’s you hide the pages you don’t want to see and provide the answers under the hood – learn the best cheat sheet ever for your settings. The new features of MDT 2012 are really impressive, from true UEFI support to monitoring your deployments during the WinPE phase; you’ve got to check these out.

Source: Microsoft Technet

Deploying Windows 7 from A to Z

If you are an enterprise operating system deployment guy, then you might be looking out for a quick, neat article about performing enterprise-scale desktop deployment. The reference article from Microsoft is talks about, how to migrate hundreds or thousands of computers running Windows XP to Windows 7.

Today I would like to talk about a article of Jeremy Chapman, a senior product manager at Microsoft, documents the high-level steps for IT professionals to perform an enterprise-scale desktop deployment project—starting with Windows XP and moving to Windows 7.

This Guide is covers most of below IT Professionals assumptions and scenarios.

1. Moving multiple computers or users from Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7.
2. Transitioning to Windows 7 have user data, settings, and applications that somehow (either partially or completely) need to be migrated to Windows 7.
3. If you would like to avoid manual effort in migrating to Windows 7.
4. Prefering to have applications be part of the customized OS you install or automate application installation as part of the total deployment process.
5. Would like to prefer entire process is as automated as possible. Then this aricle would handy and stepping stone for planning the Windows 7 Migration.

Refer Deploying Windows 7 from A to Z.doc