Deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2012
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 2:35 AM
I know MDT 2012 can be used to deploy an image to a handful of workstations. To be able to multicast you can integrate the workbench with WDS. For Enterprise deployment strategies one should look into SCCM which allows ZTI.
My question is how many workstations can you deploy an image to at the same time just using MDT? I have a small lab which contains 30 endpoints.
ZT
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:32 PM
The limit does not lay in MDT, you can run as many deployments your network and server hardware can handle.
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:50 PMIt depends on your infrastructure and the traffic it can handle.
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Saturday, February 16, 2013 8:27 PM It kinda depends on when you get tired of walking around visiting each machine to kick off the deployments.
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- Proposed As Answer by Vik Singh Monday, February 18, 2013 8:57 AM
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Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:19 AM
The limit does not lay in MDT, you can run as many deployments your network and server hardware can handle.
Hehe.. like Henrik says.. no limits..
best regards
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:37 PM
Andrew,
In theory even if you integrate the MDT workbench with WDS wouldn't you have to walk around to each workstation to kick-off a PXE boot to boot into an image?
I know MDT/WDS isn't a true zero touch solution and if I want this I should look into SCCM, but I have been having issues with the following script I have been trying to run:
psexec.exe -h -i \\MDT01 -u ads\admin -p P@ssWrd cscript.exe \\PC1\CCEShare$\Scripts\litetouch.vbs
If there is someone logged into the Win7 workstation it works. If the workstation is just sitting at a CTRL+ALT+DEL and the script is kicked off it halts as it has issues running some of the commands that require a REGSVR32 /s
I know this is little off topic, but have you had any luck in the ZTI world trying to use MDT2012?
ZT
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:34 PM
Yes ZT,
Not a fan of the PSExec method outside the testlab. Johan has a post about it here.
MDT requires an interactive session to work. I see that you're using the -i switch. That should work on XP but for vista/7/8 you would have session 0 isolation issues.
Thinking out of the box though. . .You could use PSExec to add the registry keys for an auto admin login, and add the lietouch.vbs to HKLM runonce, then force a restart. Just a theory though, seems sound in my head. :)
Good luck with this.
/Andrew
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- Marked As Answer by ZoeTaite Monday, March 18, 2013 3:56 PM
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Monday, March 18, 2013 2:47 PM
Hello,
Just a follow up question. I was doing some reading on .WIM images and one of the limitations is that the image can only be opened by one user at a time. Say we have a Lab that has 30-35 workstations. Would we be able to use MDT 2012 to image all these workstations at the sametime? Of course someone would have to walk around and use WinPE or PXE boot (WDS), but is it still possible to have 30 con-current sessions running if the MDT server can handle the requests?
ZT
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Monday, March 18, 2013 3:07 PMThat is only a limit when you modify the image, not when you are deploying so that is not an issue when you deploy machines with mdt.
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