Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 Available

Microsoft has just released as a public the newest of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 with a few important updates:

  • Supporting Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012.
  • Using Lite Touch Installation (LTI), great improvements in the client side look-n-feel.
  • Also for LTI, behind-the-scenes enhancements for partitioning, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), and user state migration.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

Requirements

Same as 2010:

  • Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) .0. You can download it from here.
    Note: The download page indicates that the WAIK is “1”; but don’t worry, the actual version is .0.
  • MSXML 6.0
  • .
  • .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. Available for download here.
    Note: Even though .Net Framework .5 SP1 is not a requirement for 2010 installation; one of its features, User-Driven Installation (UDI), does requires the latest Microsoft Framework installed.

Look-n-Feel

For what I’ve seen so far, the user experience of the Workbench console is pretty much the same.

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mdt2012a02

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The is available in this link from Microsoft Connect,

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