Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit for Planning

MDT 2008 is Microsoft’s best offering for high-volume Windows Vista deployment projects. It reduces complexity and increases standardization by allowing you to deploy a hardware and software baseline to all users and computers. With standard baselines, you can more easily manage the computing environment and spend less time managing and deploying computers and more time on mission-critical tasks.

MDT 2008 provides automation tools and guidance that help reduce labor and increase reliability by producing standardized configurations. It provides fully developed processes for you to do the following:

  • Document the project’s business case.

  • Take an inventory of the existing production computers to determine ...

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