Leveraging the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with CM OSD

If you're not familiar with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) yet, now is the time to take a look. MDT can be used as a complete OS deployment solution, and can also be used to add functionality to CM OSD. MDT integration with CM is definitely a "better together" story. Here are a few of the features that you get by integrating MDT with CM:

  • User-driven Installation (UDI): This is a rich end-user experience to assist with the OS Deployment process. UDI can allow users to walk through a wizard to select optional installations, capture/restore user state, provide user-friendly deployment status information, and more.
  • Boot Disk configuration: This allows the admin to configure additional features ...

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