1. Installing MDT 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 This guide assumes you are installing MDT 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server with the Windows Deployment Services role already installed beforehand. Also make sure you have a NTFS partition to store your images. The instructions here will help you to: Install MDT 2010 Update the Deployment Share Add a PXE-boot image Enable multicast

2. Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753 The download is an ISO which you can burn to CD or use a program such as DAEMON Tools Lite to launch the ISO in a virtual CD drive You need to install the Windows Automated Installation Kit before installing MDT 2010 Accept all defaults on the installation wizard

3. Install MDT 2010, accept all defaults on the installation wizard Since Microsoft has released MDT 2012 the download link on their website points to MDT 2012. You will need to scour the Web to find MDT 2010. One argument for installing the previous version is that MDT 2010 has more documentation available on the Internet since it’s been around a lot longer.

4. Configure a deployment share Open the Deployment Workbench

5. Right click on Deployment Shares and select New Deployment Share

6. Click on the Browse button and create a folder called DeploymentShare in your NTFS partition Click Next

7. Leave the default share name (The $ after the name makes it a hidden share) Click Next

8. Give the share a description Click Next

9. Check Ask if an image should be captured Click Next

10. Do not check this It is not a good idea to let users choose local Administrator passwords as you might end up having different passwords on your computers. Click Next

11. Check this if you want to ask users to enter product keys at the time of deployment. Do not check this if you have a Multiple Activation Key or a KMS server to handle the activation. Click Next

12. Review the summary screen Click Next Installation will take a few minutes.

13. Click Finish

14. Update the deployment share Right click on your deployment share Select Update Deployment Share

15. Click Next Select Completely regenerate the boot images

16. Click Next

17. Click Finish Updating the share should take a few minutes.

18. Add a PXE-boot image to WDS Launch Windows Deployment Services

19. Right click on Boot Images Select Add Boot Image…

20. Click on Browse…

21. Browse to the Boot folder in your DeploymentShare Select either of the following boot images based on your architecture LiteToucePE_x64.wim LiteToucePE_x86.wim Click Open If the Boot folder is empty make sure you have updated the deployment share in the previsou step

22. Click Next

23. Give the boot image a name and a description

24. Click Next

25. Adding the boot image should take a few minutes.

26. Enable multicast Open Deployment Workbench Right click on your deployment share and select Properties

27. Check this box to enable multicast

28. MDT 2010 should be up and running on your server. http://emeneye.wordpress.com That’s it.