#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT HOW TO#
#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT INSTALL#
#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT UPDATE#
#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT FOR WINDOWS 10#
#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT LICENSE#

Once you get to the Summary screen, hit the Next button to create the deployment share. DonвЂ™t worry about them to much here because they will be changed later one, and with an army of them. These are just a very small number of options, also called rules, that help us automate some of the operations done with MDT. Here we have the Descriptive Name screen, which it will be the actual folder name that we see in the Deployment Workbench console. Again, we can change this or leave the default share name. As you can see, by default it is the folder name followed by and dollar sign, meaning it is hidden from network browsing. Here we can choose what name to give to the actual share, the name we will use to access the folder trough the network using a UNC path. As the name goesвЂ¦I donвЂ™t mind using the default one. It is not recommended to go with the default option and create the shared folder on the C drive since this is the system drive, instead try to use a different volume. In the first screen of the New Deployment Share Wizard we get the option to choose where to create this shared folder and what to call it. Right-click this folder and choose New Deployment Share. This is where we will create our deployment shares, because we can have more then one.

#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT INSTALL#

This is where all the boot and install images are kept, the automation scripts, rules, everything.ДЇrom the Start menu open the MDT console which is called Deployment Workbench.ДЄs you can see, we have a Deployment Shares folder, but itвЂ™s empty. Now that we have our MDT installed, in order to make it work we have to create a so called Deployment Share, which is exactly what it sounds likeвЂ¦a share. If you followed along and have all the prerequisites in order everything will complete with no errors or interruptions whatsoever. It will take just a few seconds, and IвЂ™m not kidding here, the installation of MDT it actually takes a few seconds to complete. Choose by clicking one of the radio buttons then hit Next.ДЄnd now click Install to begin the installation of MDT. This is up to you, join or not joint the Customer Experience Improvement Program. Keep the default features that come with MDT since they donвЂ™t take much space and hit Next. Go ahead, download the version that matches your platform then run the executable. Installing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) On the the ADK installation wizard we can remove some of the features since they are not needed by MDT just by clicking the box next to them.ДЄnd thatвЂ™s it, we can now move to the actual installation of MDT. Install the packages, first the ADK then the Windows PE add-on.

#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT FOR WINDOWS 10#

Make sure you download both packages from the web page, the Windows ADK for Windows 10 and the Windows PE add-on for ADK. Up until version 1803 this was just one package containing everything we needed, but now Microsoft split this in two for whatever reason. Now letвЂ™s take care of the last prerequisite needed for MDT, the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10. It will take a while because the wizard will need to download the complete installation package from Microsoft, but if you have a large internet pipe, the installation should complete in a few minutes.Дownload and install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)

#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT LICENSE#

Go to MicrosoftвЂ™s web site, download it, then run the program.ДЄccept the license terms then hit the Install button to begin the. I presume you already have your Windows Server installed, so letвЂ™s move on at the. Downloading and Installing MDT prerequisites Download and install. The third prerequisite, which is also the largest one in terms of space is Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10. The first one off course, is to have an OS where we can install it, and MDT supports a variety of MicrosoftвЂ™s operating systems like Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, but for this article I am going to use a Windows Server 2019 edition, which is the latest at the time of this writing. MDT does not have much of these, actually if I think about it there are just three of them.

#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT UPDATE#

Now I want to вЂњpushвЂќ a small update for those that are just starting using MDT so they can successfully install it and deploy their choose Windows OS, which is Windows 10 nowadays.ДЇirst things first, prerequisites. DonвЂ™t get me wrong, they will still work, but a few things have changed since I wrote those articles, especially on the MDT installation and configuration part.

#WINDOWS 10 DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT HOW TO#

I was browsing my blog, and during this time I noticed I have a series of articles on how to install and configure MDT so you can successfully deploy your chosen OS in your company, but they are outdated.

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