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Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

You're reading from   Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Take a deep dive into the world of Windows desktop deployment using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782172499
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Imaging Concepts and Theory FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Environment 3. Creating Reference Images 4. Default User Profile Customization 5. CustomSettings.ini and Task Sequence 6. Drivers 7. Image Deployment 8. USMT – The User State Migration Tool 9. Troubleshooting Deployment Logs 10. Validating the Image 11. Database, UserExit Scripts, and Web Services A. Additional Enterprise Configuration Items

Updating up the deployment share


Next we're going to walk through updating the deployment share. Right-click on the reference share that we've just set up, and select Update Deployment Share:

The Update Deployment  Share Wizard dialog box will appear, as shown in the following image:

The defaults, as shown in the previous image, are fine here. You will typically only select the compress checkbox when you have retired a model of hardware and want to reclaim this driver whitespace out of the WinPE build. If you don't do this, it'll be consumed as you add newer drivers to the WinPE image. Click on Next.

Tip

The Completely regenerate the boot images option is typically used as a troubleshooting step when your boot media appears confused and it is best to rebuild from a known good set of settings rather than try to figure out what went wrong.

Automatic boot media creation

In the following screenshot of the Progress screen, MDT indicates that no existing boot image exists, so it is creating a new...

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