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  • Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:29 AM
     
     
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    Hi there.

    I was wondering if anyone has an older version of MDT for me or a location where I can download it. I need to deploy win2000 (sorry, I know it's old and no longer supported) for a few of our customers that refuse to live in the now. Does anyone have a copy of MDT 2008 laying around?

     

    Thanx in advance,

     

    MicaH

     

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  • Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:21 PM
     
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    Even MDT 2008 does not support deploying Windows 2000, only migrating from Windows 2000. You will have to go back to the earlier BDD versions, like BDD 2.5 or so to deploy Windows 2000 (If you could find them).

    I remember having to hack old WinPE 2.x versions even to make the Windows 2000 unattended setup run, and most Windows 2000 machines don't have 512 MB of RAM (which WinPE 2.x and later requires).

    You are probably better of with an old Windows Server 2003 with WDS running in mixed mode if you need to deploy Windows 2000. It's not as elegant as BDD/MDT but still PXE based, automated deployment. It also doesn't require that much memory on the client.

    / Johan

    Regards / Johan Arwidmark Twitter: @jarwidmark Blog: http://www.deploymentresearch.com FB: www.facebook.com/deploymentresearch
    • Marked As Answer by MicaH_Z Friday, May 04, 2012 12:13 PM
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  • Monday, February 06, 2012 3:03 PM
     
     
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    The deployment will only be used for restoring purposes. Can I use MDT to capture a win2k machine and then deploy the captured image? That would be a great solution to our problem.
     
  • Monday, February 06, 2012 8:12 PM
     
     
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    Well, sure, you can have a custom task sequence running a imagex /capture, and image /apply... but I think you are way better off with an old Ghost, PQIDeploy, Altiris or TrueImage license if you want to image old Win2000 machines.

    You can even run the free dd for windows in WinPE to create an exact diskcopy, but you have less restore options compared with say Ghost....

    / Johan

    Regards / Johan Arwidmark Twitter: @jarwidmark Blog: http://www.deploymentresearch.com FB: www.facebook.com/deploymentresearch
     
  • Saturday, February 16, 2013 4:31 AM
     
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    Try This 

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/mdt/thread/241384c7-f6db-4933-a74a-24359b6a6f0f

    This is to make XP home edition work , but it may work if you copy the ID files from the root of an XP Pro SP3 Disk

    Update:

    Making progress Tried what i suggested and got up to "windows 200 cannot detect what version of window you're running"

    now trying to somehow deploy this reg key to bypass this

    http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/85646-winpe-20-ntfs-not-working-with-2000-please-help/

    I'll post a step by step guide when done

    Update:

    It worked!

    Here's how you make it Happen.
    Copy Windows 200 Pro SP4 to a folder on your server's hard drive. and copy the WIN51IP.* files form a Windows XP Pro SP3 disk to the root of the win2k cd folder.

    Compile an MDT boot-disk and then go to the \boot folder of your deployment share an mount one of the WIMs.

    Mount the registry hive using the following command

    reg load HKLM\PE-SFT %MOUNTROOTDIR%\Mount\Windows\system32\config\software

    go in ad create the following registriy key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\PE-SFT\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
    "ProductID"="50293-000-1234567-12345"

    Unmount the hive

    reg unload HKLM\PE-SFT 

    Then unmout and commit the changes to the wim.

    Next re-compile your boot-disks using the "optimal" option (this will keep the changes we made)

    Boot and deploy Win 2000 :)

    I knew it was possible, after all XP is just windows 2000 with a candy coated UI