Chapter 12. Deploying with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

  • Introducing MDT 2010 355

  • Using LTI with MDT 2010 357

  • Customizing MDT 2010 367

  • Summary 378

  • Additional Resources 378

The Windows 7 operating system and the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) include the low-level tools necessary to deploy the operating system. However, they don’t provide a framework for managing and automating high-volume Windows 7 deployments or business logic for managing complex projects. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) provides this framework and business logic, making it Microsoft’s primary tool for deploying Windows 7.

This chapter describes how to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7. It assumes that you’ve already created a deployment share in a lab ...

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