Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Summary

In this chapter, we showed you how easily MDT can be extended by a SQL database and how this benefits and brings flexibility to your deployment, especially when using at larger scales. With UserExit scripts, you can extend and modify MDT in nearly every way. You can use these scripts, for example, to build a Wrapper for your own GUI instead of the MDT wizard, you can use these scripts to easily merge different models/makes, WMI data, and so on. Last but not least, the web services bring you a lot of comfort features to query AD, IP ranges, and lots of other information, without the need to expose critical AD user account information into scripts. All these features would surely fill an entire book for themselves, so this chapter only introduces you ...