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 to: 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.
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This is the ultimate source for the working IT Pro who wants to develop and customize deployment solutions based on MDT 2013 and/or ConfigMgr 2012 R2. This is a HOW TO GET IT DONE book, solely focused on customizing deployment solutions with roots in the real world. In addition to well-proven step-by-step guides, you also get access to sample scripts and source code, allowing you to quickly test the solutions in your own environment. As far as the title goes, we don’t mean you should steal things, literally. In this book, stealing is a metaphor for not reinventing the wheel. We don’t want you to waste time developing solutions that are already available for free. Discover how to Setup MDT 2013 Lite Touch for OSD – Setup ConfigMgr 2012 R2 for OSD – Work with drivers in MDT 2013 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2 – Customize MDT 2013 Lite Touch and ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD – Select the right development tools for OSD customizations – Use version control for your scripts and source code – Advanced customization of the MDT 2013 Lite Touch wizard – Master the rules (CustomSettings.ini) – Create UserExit scripts – Configure user-driven installation (UDI) – Create and extend the MDT database – Use a custom frontend for the MDT database – Create and debug custom scripts and frontends – Create web services in both VB.NET and C# – Extend the MDT Monitoring feature – Setup and configure Orchestrator 2012 R2 – Integrate MDT 2013 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2 with Orchestrator 2012 R2
No way! Automating the deployment of the entire infrastructure? That can’t be done! These are words we have heard many times, but the answer is: Yes, you can, with the step-by-step guides, sample scripts, and other resources found in this book. In the modern datacenter, everything is about automation, repeatable processes, and well-designed and documented infrastructure. This can be accomplished with PowerShell and MDT 2013. In this book, you learn how to install and configure the core infrastructure components in Windows Server 2012 R2. You start from absolutely nothing, and using the book and its sample scripts, build a complete real-world, production-ready infrastructure.
If your job is deploying Windows 8 (or Windows 7), 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 4 provides you with detailed step-by-step instructions for all aspects of deploying Windows using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Update 1. Detailed explanations and real-world notes help you make the right decisions and understand the hows and whys of Windows OS deployment. Samples and scripts give you the tools you need for the best results.
Deployment Fundamentals – Volume 3 is crammed with a lot of useful information on how to deploy Windows 7 with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. We (the authors) have all been fighting with OS deployment for many years, and we simply decided to fill the book with everything we know on how to make it effective and easy to manage OS deployment in ConfigMgr. You also will find many real-world examples, including ready-made scripts and solutions you can use directly in your environment.
If you want to know how to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2, and content based on reality is more important to you than fancy poetry, you have found the right book. This book covers end-to-end server deployment, inventory, server applications, real drivers, real hardware, real problems, real network environments and, of course, real solutions. We take you on a journey through MAP, WAIK, MDT, WDS, and SCVMM.
If you want to know how to deploy Windows 7, and content based on reality is more important than fancy poetry, we guess you found the right book. This book covers end to end deployment, inventory, applications (even ugly ones), real drivers, real hardware, real problems, real network environments and of course, real solutions. We will take you on a journey that covers MAP, ACT, WAIK, MDT and WDS. We will show you how to upgrade your skills so you too can take advantage of really knowing how to deploy Windows 7.