Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 6: Deploying Windows 10 Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

by Johan Arwidmark, Mikael Nystrom

If your job is deploying Windows 10, this book is for you. In this book, you will find practical guidance based on our many years of real-world experience deploying Windows around the world. Deployment Fundamentals, Volume 6, provides you with detailed step-by-step instructions, as well as decision-making guidance and explanations that provide answers on the Whys and Hows around Windows 10 OS deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update 2. The book also include many real-word notes and troubleshooting tips and tricks. To get you going as quickly possible, the book sample scripts contains a fully automated build of the entire environment, the hydration kit. That includes a fully configured Active Directory environment, including DNS, DHCP, WSUS, PXE, DFS-R Replication, SQL Express, and more. With this book, you will learn how Install and configure MDT 2013 Update 2 for production deployments - Build the supporting infrastructure - Use the script repository included with this book in your own environment - Create production-ready reference images for Windows 10 - Build a real-world deployment solution for Windows 10 - Add and deploy applications - Perform real-world driver management - Apply advanced configurations for CustomSettings.ini and deployment automation - Extend MDT using application wrappers, userexit scripts, and PowerShell - Prestage deployment settings using the MDT databases - Perform advanced configuration using web services - Deploy Office 2016, including the Click-to-Run Office 365 version

Genres: Reference

302 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Benjamin Hare · Rating 4 out of 5]

A truly worthwhile book that took me from knowing almost nothing about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, to deploying it for use in a test environment. I'm still ironing out the many details, but this book gave me 80% of what I needed to know in order to complete my project at work. This book is not easy to work through, assuming a fairly wide base of experience from its reader—which is both understandable and laudable—and so requires hard work. This book is not a reference; it's more of a walk-through, a guided tour through exercises for learning the MDT. Considering the almost impenetrable nature of the MDT's own documentation, this book was exactly what I needed, when I needed it.

The book also introduced me to the power of PowerShell, a new scripting language built into Microsoft's operating systems since Windows Vista. By the time I reached the end I had bought two more specifically about learning PowerShell. I'm rather ashamed that it took me this long to realize how valuable this scripting language can be, but credit "Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 6" as proving the point. Thank you, Johan Arwidmark.