Our engineering team has had an amazing journey this past year with two key releases to help our customers improve their capabilities for deploying Windows in their enterprises. As you know, we released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 in April of this year to coincide with the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and this enabled a lot of functionality asked for by you. These are outlined in this post I made back around this release and include an all-new extensible wizard, all-new rebuilt designer, and support for all the enterprise deployment scenarios.
On the heels of the 2012 release, our team was quickly focused on enabling the UDI scenario forWindows 8 & 2012 which were soon-to-be-released. The final “gold” bits were announced for Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012, and with that, I’m super proud that we have released MDT 2012 Update 1 which enables all the key features and support needed to deploy Windows 8 & 2012 with MDT UDI.
In today’s post, I want to make you aware of the key additional features & support added in this release for UDI. In today’s post, I will not drill-down into the features and will save this for later more in-depth posts but I want you to start playing with them now.
Introducing USMT for Windows 8 Support
The major testing that our team had to do across the various refresh & replace scenarios was focusing on ensuring that we could effectively capture and restore your user’s data. In Windows 8, a new version of User State Migration Tool (USMT) was released and as part of Update 1 we’ve validated that all UDI-based scenarios using this new USMT is supported.
Read complete post on http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrad/archive/2012/08/21/introducing-user-driven-install-udi-for-mdt-2012-update-1.aspx