MDT 2012 Update 1 Beta 1

The Microsoft Toolkit team is pleased to announce that Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 201 Update 1 Beta 1 is now available for download!

Download MDT 2012 Update 1 Beta 1 now!

Download the latest release to stay up-to-date on your needs. New features and enhancements make large-scale desktop and server deployments smoother than ever!

This release expands your capabilities with support for the latest software releases, including 8 Release Preview, Windows Server 201 Release Candidate, and 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Community Technology Preview. Other notable new features include:

  • Support for using the DaRT 8 Beta with the 8 Release version of the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK).
  • New "Build Your Own Pages" support for User-Driven Installation (UDI), enabling to create new wizard panes using simple drag-and-drop operations – no coding required.
  • Integration with Orchestrator, enabling task sequences to invoke Orchestrator runbooks at any point in the process.
  • Completely reworked "Roles and Features" logic, supporting both installation and removal, as well as providing a new Lite Touch wizard pane for selecting roles and features to install at time.
  • Support for PowerShell 3.0 to make it easier to run PowerShell scripts inside task sequences on 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows PE 4.0.
  • Simple monitoring functionality for Configuration Manager task sequences, leveraging the monitoring capabilities provided initially in 201 for Lite Touch deployments.
  • Improved " from " capabilities, supporting both bare metal and refresh deployments.
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