

Provides guidance for completing the planning tasks in preparation for MDT deployments. Table 2 lists each section in this guide, with a brief overview of each. The following sections in this guide help you perform LTI, ZTI, and UDI deployments and customize the deployment process. This document is organized to help you through the planning, building, and deploying processes in your organization. Provides information to assist in troubleshooting common problems with MDT deployments, including lists of known issues, reviewing logs, and identifying issues by error code. Use this document to help customize MDT deployments for your organization. Provides information about the task sequence steps, properties, support files, utilities, and databases used in MDT deployments. Use this document to help solve difficult deployment problems. Most samples include example configuration files and step-by-step processes for implementing the solution. Provides scenario-based samples of how to solve common deployment issues using MDT. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Samples Guide Additional MDT Documents for Use in the Deployment Process Document In addition to this document, Table 1 lists other documents that will help you perform deployments using MDT in your organization.


This document covers these deployment methods and shows how to customize the deployment process for an organization. Only MDT is used in LTI deployments, while ZTI and UDI deployments are performed using MDT with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. MDT performs deployments by using the Lite Touch Installation (LTI), Zero Touch Installation (ZTI), and User-Driven Installation (UDI) deployment methods. Similarly, MDT refers to MDT 2013 unless otherwise stated. MDT does not support ARM processor–based versions of Windows. In this document, Windows applies to the Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server® 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2008 R2 unless otherwise noted.
