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Module 11: Creating and managing deployment

images

Contents:

Lesson Introduction to deployment images

Lesson 2: Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT

Lesson 3: Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Lab: Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016

and takeaways

Module overview

With the increase in the number of information technology (IT) solutions in

organizations, the number of physical and virtual server images has also increased.
Due to this situation, operating system deployments take longer to complete and
require resources. As a result, looking for new
ways deployment process.

The Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update tools,

processes, that you can use to manage operating system
images. enhance the deployment process by integrating MDT with Windows
Deployment Services (Windows DS) in the Windows Server 2016 operating system.

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Virtual machine environments have become ubiquitous in the datacenter, and having
the ability to deploy virtual server roles and workloads while deploying operating
systems is an important part of the deployment process.

Objectives

After you will be able to:

• Describe Server 2016 image-deployment

• Create deployment images by using

• Describe the different workloads in the virtual machine environment.

Lesson 1: Introduction to deployment images

An important deployment process is determining images.

You way to store the images Additionally,
you will service images after lesson, you
will learn and how to deploy them. about the
different tools you can use in deploying images.

Lesson objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe

• Describe installation tools.

• Describe create, update, and maintain

• Describe the Windows Automated Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10.

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• Describe Windows Deployment Services

• Describe the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 (Update 2).

• Prepare a Windows Server 2016 image using the MDT.

Overview

Imaging has been in use for a long time, with early imaging products primarily
performing sector-based imaging. Windows operating systems use .wim files that
contain file-based images. When you are planning an image management strategy,
you must considerations. Some of considerations include
the type of images, storage and device
drivers, management.

Type

You can choose between sector-based and file-based imaging. File-based imaging

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has many advantages over sector-based imaging. These include hardware

independence, storing multiple images in a single file, single instancing, offline
servicing, and nondestructive deployment. However, sector-based images have a few
advantages, including:

• They deploy faster than file-based images. File-based images copy files to the
destination whenever they are applied. read
answer configuration options. Sector-based copy bits,
regardless configurations you might

• They all the necessary drivers, when all client

systems are identical. If your computer includes critical hardware that is not Plug
and Play, using file-based imaging requires extra work to ensure that the proper
device drivers are available.

Windows

The enabled administrators using

sector-based methods. Newer can assist in
the deployment Windows operating systems. The file-based imaging
formats are available for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016:

• Windows image file (.wim). The Windows image file is a file-based, disk-image
format that has a .wim file extension and that contains one or more individual
volume images. The Windows image file structure contain six of
resources,

o content of the Windows file

o series of packages that contain captured

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o Metadata resources. Information about the files that you capture. There is one
metadata resource for each image in a .wim file.

o Lookup table. Information about the location of file resources in the .wim file.
There is one lookup table for each image.

o XML data. Additional information about the image. There is XML data field

o hash information that verification

is one integrity table

• Virtual disk (.vhd). Typically, you use .vhd machines.

Windows 7 and newer operating systems provide the capability to start physical
machines by using a .vhd file on the hard drive, instead of installing the operating
system files directly on the hard drive. This is the boot from virtual hard disk
process. There are multiple ways to create .vhd files, such as the Windows
PowerShell cmdlet, the DiskPart command-line
Management Microsoft Hyper-V Manager. the .vhd
file, Windows image file that contains system to it,
and a physical computer. Windows 8
Enterprise system introduced Windows enables you to
start a physical computer from a removable storage device, such as a USB drive.
Windows To Go uses a .vhd file to store an operating system partition on a
removable device.

Before must configure it policies of

your be as basic as a simple standard
operating or as complex as an system that
includes that the organization types of
images: hybrid.

Thin images

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A thin image is the smallest possible image you can create. It contains only the
operating system and the necessary settings for a computer to be used in a network
environment. Thin images do not contain any installed applications. A thin image is
an appropriate baseline for all computers that will use the same operating system,
regardless of the applications and utilities that could be loaded afterwards. However,
the downside of thin images is that, because they do not contain any installed
applications, all of the necessary computer after
you deploy

Thick

A thick image is the opposite of a thin image. It contains the operating system and
every application required by the end user. The advantage of a thick image is that,
after deployment, the user can work on the computer without having to install
anything else. The disadvantages are that thick images are larger than thin images,
and you the image more often multiple
applications.

Hybrid

Most organizations with images that fall somewhere thin and thick.
Administrators commonly identify the various applications required by most of the
users in the organization and then create an image that contains all of those common
applications. Once the image is applied to a computer, the specific applications for an
individual user are deployed as well. This type of image is a hybrid image. Large
organizations set of hybrid images such as one
for the one for the sales the IT
department.

Boot

You can build boot images from Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

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for Windows 10, which is a lightweight version of the Windows operating system. You
can use boot images to start a computer in an environment where you can capture or
install an operating system image. When you start a computer from a boot image,
you load the Windows PE image into random access memory (RAM) and the system
creates a RAM disk to which it assigns the drive letter X. The RAM disk provides a
virtual file system in memory, which allows you to remove the actual boot media if
required. could remove the boot has a
.wim to the hard drive.

The contains a default wim. In

many use this boot image to start process, but you can
modify the [Link] file to meet any special requirements of your organization, such
as injecting specific network drivers.

Install images

The operating systems client

computers. image is [Link], folder in
the Windows Typically, you create images by
building computer based on the Windows the
operating you want to install. After the you modify it to
meet your needs, such as installing apps, and then capture and store it on your
deployment server.

Overview of image-based installation tools

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You can choose from several tools and technologies to perform an image-based
Windows installation. You must tools and
know them in deployment

• Windows command-line options (Setup. Windows

installations interactive or unattended methods.

• Answer file ([Link]). A simple answer file includes basic Windows Setup
configuration data and minimum Windows Welcome customizations, which start
after the Windows Setup program runs.

• Catalog. all available components can be

used [Link] answer file, through
Windows Manager (SIM).

• Windows upgraded version Installation

Kit ( that contains Windows PE necessary for
customized deployment of Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.

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You might want to modify an existing .wim file by injecting drivers or adding Windows
packages to an image. You can use several tools to service .wim files. You can
deploy .wim files through the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Windows DS, and
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (Configuration Manager). You also
can use the ImageX and Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM)
command-line tools or the DISM Windows PowerShell module cmdlets to service and
deploy .

ImageX

ImageX. command-line tool that Microsoft the .wim file format

to manage .wim files. ImageX is installed through the Windows ADK for Windows 10.
You can run ImageX from within the Windows operating system when servicing an
image or from the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) when
deploying an image. ImageX is being deprecated and replaced with DISM.

DISM

DISM. tool that you can use wim files.

Microsoft replace several image tools, including
ImageX. the same functionality that ImageX such as the
ability to mount, service, capture, and create .wim files. You also can use DISM to
prepare Windows PE images and to deploy .vhd and .vhdx files.

A DISM PowerShell module is available natively in Windows 8 and newer versions,

and Windows newer versions. The module also is
available ADK. There are now when
using Windows Server 2016, and service
existing

Using DISM command-line parameters or Windows PowerShell cmdlets

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The command-line parameters and the Windows PowerShell cmdlets provide similar
functionality. The following table includes the basic commands for imaging.

Task DISM command-line Windows PowerShell

parameters cmdlets

Mount /mount-image Mount-WindowsImage

Commit /commit-image
mounted .

Get /get-imageinfo
Windows

Dismount a .wim file /unmounts-image Dismount-WindowsImage

Add a driver to a mounted /image:PathToImage /add-driver Add-WindowsDriver –Driver

image /driver:PathToDriver PathToDriverFile –Path
PathToRootDirectoryOfImage

Apply /apply-image Expand-WindowsImage

drive

Capture /capture-image
into a

Additional Reading: For more information on Windows PowerShell DISM

cmdlets, refer to DISM Cmdlets: [Link]

To list all the cmdlets, including those added for this version of DISM in Windows
Server PowerShell command following
cmdlets, each line:

Import-Module

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Get-Command –Module DISM

Creating, updating, and maintaining images

The process for creating an install image can be summarized in the following high-
level steps:

1. Start the reference computer from the network and perform a standard
Windows operating system installation.

2. computer as required.

3. computer.

4. reference computer’s Windows image, and

upload it back to the Windows Deployment Services server.

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Create a capture image

A capture image is a boot image that you can use to start a reference computer,
capture its system drive, and store it in a .wim file. A reference computer is a
computer that creates an image that you will later use to deploy an operating system
to multiple computers.

Install reference computer

You operating system on the using any

of the

• Manual install. Start the reference computer by using the Windows install media,
or connect a share or USB drive that contains the install media, and then run
[Link].

• Windows Start the reference Pre-boot

Execution PXE), and then start apply the
standard desired Windows operating

• Other can use any other operating deployment tool to apply

the standard [Link] image to the reference computer. Some of the tools that
you can use are:

o DISM

o ImageX

Customize reference computer

After installing the operating system on a reference computer, configure the reference
computer by doing one or more of the following:

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• Enable and configure required Windows roles and features.

• Install any required applications.

• Configure all required Windows operating system settings.

Generalize computer

Windows GUIDs for different components system.

These be distinct from identifiers computers on
the same When you create a reference apply that image
to multiple computers on the same network, they will all have the same unique
identifiers, and therefore will not be able to communicate with one another. To solve
this issue, you can use a tool called Sysprep.

To generalize Sysprep, execute the

1. with elevated privileges.

2. type the following Enter:

sysprep /generalize

Capture

After you must execute the capture the

image:

1. Restart the reference image by using PXE boot.

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2. Connect to a session in the server that is running Windows DS to download the

captured image.

3. Follow the Capture Image wizard and specify the name of the .wim file that you
want to create with the image from the reference computer.

Storage

Depending includes, the image amount of

storage the images that sector-based products create
include the blank space on a hard drive, because it simply copies everything on the
hard drive. This can lead to larger images than what a file-based imaging solution
creates, because the file-based image only contains the files installed on the
computer. Additionally, if you have several different hardware vendors, you might
need to have sector-based images for each different hardware abstraction layer
(HAL). substantial disk space for

Number

When image management strategy, number of images

that you have to create. Besides the space needed to store the images, you will
require an appreciable amount of time to maintain them.

When you use sector-based imaging, you might need to create multiple images
based the hardware that your environment is using. Typically, each different
storage use requires an image. acquire new
hardware, create, store, and maintain When
you use can use the same most
systems.

Software

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Operating system images do not have to include only the operating systems. You can
install most software on your reference computer before imaging it. However, the
more software that images include, the larger the images become and the longer
they take to deploy.

Deployment of device drivers

You in captured images, store that

supports functionality for your hardware, them with
post-image might need to include the
image available during the imaging are critical to
the installation. Critical drivers typically are storage and network drivers.

Image updates

When you are taking a snapshot computing

environment time. However, outside drivers,
operating applications continue to update. for
including changes in your images. sector-based
images, deploying the image, necessary changes,
and then recapturing image. File-based images offline servicing
greatly reduce the time necessary for maintaining images. You need to maintain and
update images to keep them current. You can service .wim file images at different
stages of the deployment process.

There strategies for image maintenance,

• Using strategy involves Windows

Setup image. You can create by using
the

• Online servicing. This strategy involves deploying the image back to a reference

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computer, making all of the necessary changes, and then reimaging the reference
computer. You might need to do this when installing new applications, Windows
Installer-based software updates (.msi files), or drivers with .exe installations, and
when adding anything that depends on Windows-installed services, such as the
Microsoft .NET Framework.

• Offline strategy involves using and

service servicing images offline, Update-
based updates, drivers, and or
remove Windows software components. servicing
typically include installing applications.

Using Windows Setup to customize images

You can use Windows Setup to modify an image during different phases of the
deployment when deploying an computer for
online deploying the image to client an
unattended answer file, you can
customizations, following servicing operations:

• Add or remove a language pack.

• Configure international settings.

• Add and remove drivers.

• Add

• Enable Windows operating system

Online servicing

You can perform online servicing with the DISM tool or through manual intervention.

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After deploying the system to a reference computer, you can add Plug and Play
device drivers to the driver store, install applications and system components, install
folders and files, and test the changes to the image. After you complete and test the
changes, you can recapture the reference system. You can use the following tools to
perform various online operations:

• DISM international settings, and to

apply settings.

• DPInst detected hardware.

• PnPUtil remove, and enumerate drivers.

• Windows Update Standalone Installer to add service packs or other .msu files.

• LPKSetup to add or remove language packs.

Offline

Offline images that are stored format and use

the DISM servicing. The DISM tool can perform of the following:

• Mount, remount, and unmount an image in a .wim file for servicing.

• Query information about a Windows image.

• Add, and enumerate drivers provided inf files.

• Add, enumerate packages, including provided as

.cab

• Add .

• Configure international settings.

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• Enable, disable, and enumerate Windows operating system features.

• Upgrade to a newer edition of Windows.

• Check the applicability of a Windows Installer application update (.msp file).

• Enumerate applications and application updates installed in a Windows image.

• Apply section of an unattended

• Update image.

Windows ADK for Windows 10

You develop deployment environment.

You deployment process process
that involves and hardware testing. A image-deployment
processes have in common are the creation and capture of a reference computer,
and the use of that image to build client systems.

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A basic deployment process might include the following steps, which you can perform
without using Windows ADK. However, by using Windows ADK, you can make this
process faster and more consistent across multiple builds by performing the following
steps:

1. Create the Windows PE media. You can use a USB device or a bootable CD
capture your image and customize it.

image with any necessary

image with any additional as the Windows

RE.

c. Use the makeWinPEMedia /ufd command to create the bootable USB

device.

2. answer files. To automate to create

configuration that you

media to create SIM can

b. Modifying a sample answer file to fit your needs and including any drivers
or other packages in the installation.

c. Creating the answer file for your environment.

file to the root directory and

[Link].

that includes the CopyProfile you can

default user profile. You profile
making direct changes to creating a script that
uses the REG command.

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f. Copying the answer-file profile to the root directory of the USB device as
[Link].

3. Use the answer file that you created to install a Windows operating system on
your reference computer:

Plug the USB device into the reference computer.

product installation reference system.

will use the Autounattend. complete the

administrator profile.

d. Ensure that the USB device with the [Link] is plugged in.

4. Capture the image:

generalize the system. xml file,

Sysprep command on space after

\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep. /oobe
/unattend:

D:\[Link]

b. Start the computer from the Windows PE USB device.

5. Use the DISM tool to copy the Windows partition to a network location or

6. computer:

with the Windows

b. Use diskpart to configure the hard drive as appropriate.

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c. Use the applyimage command to apply the previously captured image.

d. Verify that the computer image and profile settings are correct.

Windows ADK contains different tools that IT professionals can use to assess,
customize, Windows operating systems released
Windows to incorporate Windows ADK
functionality. Windows ADK in two Windows
assessment deployment. This topic deployment.

Windows ADK contains the following deployment tools:

• Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT). ACT enables software developers,

independent software vendors, and IT professionals who work in an enterprise
environment to determine whether their applications are compatible with a new
version operating system. ACT individuals to
determine affect their applications.

• DISM. part of the Windows you can

use offline image servicing. This is for maintaining
images that an operating system deployment uses.

• Windows SIM. You can use Windows SIM to create unattended Windows Setup
answer files.

• Windows PE. Windows PE is the initial operating system that you use during a
Windows deployment. Windows computer by
running partitioning a hard drive, volumes,
copying system, and initiating

• User Tool (USMT). USMT is a executable files that

you can use to copy user state data from a computer. You can then restore that
data onto a new installation of the Windows operating system.

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• Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT). VAMT provides a centralized tool for
managing volume-licensed Microsoft products, including Windows operating
systems and Microsoft Office products.

• Additional tools. These are command-line tools, such as oscdimg, which creates
bootable Windows PE .iso image files, and makewinpemedia, which creates
Windows media.

• Technical documentation. This includes Windows

Setup, Windows SIM, Windows RE), and
additional documentation.

Windows ADK for Windows 10 has the following new deployment tools:

• Flashing tools. These are tools to flash Full Flash Update (FFU) images to
Windows

• Windows Configuration Designer ( ICD lets

you packages to customize reimage
them. customized Windows markets.

• Windows Assessment Toolkit. The Assessment Toolkit helps you assess a running
operating system, determine its status, review results in a report, diagnose
problems or issues, and helps you correct the problems or issues. It comes with
the Windows Assessment Console and a number of XML and binary files that are
loaded with specific computer status checks and measurement components. It
also Assessment Toolkit technical

• Windows Toolkit. This contains two Performance

Recorder Performance Analyzer. collect
detailed profiles of Windows operating

Windows ADK also includes the Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012 SP1 database,

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which stores objects that are collected by some deployment tools, such as ACT.

Windows Deployment Services

Windows that is intended for deployment responsible

for the Windows operating systems. Windows DS by
using the Add Roles and Features wizard in Server Manager or by using Windows
PowerShell.

It provides the following functions:

• Allows network-based operating

• Simplifies process.

• Supports computers that have operating system.

• Provides end-to-end deployment solutions for both client and server computers.

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• Uses existing technologies, such as Windows PE, Windows image file (.wim) and
virtual hard disk (.vhd and .vhdx) image files, and image-based deployment.

Windows DS enables automated deployment of Windows operating systems. You

can completely automate deployment of the following operating systems:

• Windows

• Windows

• Windows

• Windows Server 2012

• Windows 8

• Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows

• Windows

• Windows Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Windows DS enables you to create, store, and deploy installation images of

supported operating systems, and supports .wim, .vhd, and .vhdx image files.
Deployment be unicast or multicast. With unicast, packets sent to a
particular time. If more than one packets, the
process devices have the needed multicasting, the
packets multicast group, and all the same
packets helps to manage
deployment faster and less bandwidth This potentially
speeds up deployment without affecting other network services adversely.

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Windows DS consists of two role services and three management tools:

• Deployment Server. This role service manages end-to-end Windows operating

system deployment solutions, including a PXE component.

• Transport Server. This role service provides basic network services and a PXE
listener. forwards the requests to Transport
Server is part of the Windows install the
Transport service as a standalone an
additional such as Configuration System
Center Machine Manager (Virtual Machine custom
deployment services.

• Windows DS snap-in. This is the Windows DS graphical user interface (GUI). You
can complete most Windows DS tasks in this snap-in, which you can install only if
you install the Deployment Server role service.

• WDSUTIL. command-line management tool also can

use Windows DS management.

• Windows cmdlets that were introduced 2012 R2.

You can use the Deployment Server and Transport Server roles together, or you can
use the Transport Server role alone by using Configuration Manager or Virtual
Machine Manager. You cannot run WDSUtil and the Windows PowerShell cmdlets
remotely. You must sign in to the Windows DS server to be able to configure
Windows command line.

You Windows DS with Active Services (AD

DS), standalone service. Installing DS-
integrated provides the following benefits:

• AD DS acts as a data store, and you can prestage a computer in AD DS. During

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the deployment process, Windows DS will match the physical computer to the AD
DS object.

• AD DS allows Windows DS to register as a system services control point. A

system services control point identifies the computer account as a Windows DS
server and stores configuration settings, such as whether the server is responding
to

Components systems

Windows DS utilizes the componentized nature of Windows operating systems.

Components allow you to separate the core functionality of the operating system in
an image by adding or removing components at any time. For example, you can
create an image containing the Windows 10 Enterprise operating system and the
applications used by all users in your company. You can use this image as a standard
image organization. You can save this wim file used
for deployment Windows DS. As Microsoft Windows
10, you updates to the base .wim component
approach, create new images

Updates are not the only componentized element that you can apply to images. The
following elements follow the component infrastructure:

• Updates

• Service

• Language

• Device

You can reduce the size of images and total number of available images in a server

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running Windows DS by taking advantage of the componentized nature of the

Windows operating system and the ability to apply components to images managed
by Windows DS.

Any organization that wants to reduce administration effort during operating system
deployment can do so by using Windows DS. Organizations that use Windows DS
require users when deploying

To create session, start the target and then

join the session starts, the deployment user
interaction. deployment is a lite-touch

You also can use Windows DS in conjunction with other technologies to provide an
even less interactive deployment, called zero-touch installation (ZTI). In a zero-touch
installation, a designated server can use the Wake On LAN protocol to start
computers then join a session DS. That
way, target computers is necessary.

Whether zero-touch installations, you to

create efficient environment
Consider following scenarios.

Deployment over a small network

In a small network consisting of a single server and around 25 computers running the
Windows you could use Windows upgrade
process to Windows 10. After
configured server role on the single Windows
DS to tasks:

1. Add [Link] from the sources folder of the Windows Server 2016 media as a
boot image in Windows DS.

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2. Add [Link] from the sources folder of the Windows 10 media as an install
image.

3. Create a capture image from the boot image that you added previously.

4. Start your reference computer from the network by using PXE.

5. installation of Windows image.

6. productivity applications applications as

computer.

7. reference computer by using Preparation Tool

(Sysprep).

8. Restart the reference computer from the network by using PXE.

9. Connect to the capture image that you created, use it to capture the local
then upload it back to

10. target computers from PXE, and

boot image.

11. install image, and then deployment

The benefits of this deployment method to the organization in this scenario are:

• A standardized desktop computer image.

• Quick computer with limited

This larger deployments because installer to

start deployment the target computer. Additionally, is required to
select a disk partition on which to install the selected installation image.

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Deployment over a medium to large organization

In the second scenario, a medium-to-large size organization wants to deploy multiple

servers in branch offices that are geographically dispersed. Sending experienced IT
staff to each location to deploy the servers would be time-consuming and expensive.

By using can address this issue

1. Windows Server 2016 in

2. Add [Link] from the Windows Server 2016 media as an install image.

3. Create a capture image.

4. Start the reference computer from the network.

5. installation of Windows [Link]

6. computer as required.

7. reference computer.

8. Restart the reference computer.

9. Capture the reference Windows operating system, and upload it back to the
Windows DS server.

10. Active Directory Domain computer

the computer accounts.

11. Windows ADK to create

12. Configure the answer file for use with the captured installation image on

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Windows DS.

13. Configure a custom naming policy in Windows DS so that each server computer
receives a suitable computer name during deployment.

14. Configure Windows DS to use a default boot image.

15. respond to PXE requests deployment of the

automatically.

16. computers from the

The benefits of this deployment method to the organization in this scenario are:

• Standardized server builds.

• Automatic domain-join following deployment.

• Automatic

• Little interaction.

The solution does not implement multicast transmissions, nor does it use PXE
referral. You also could use these technologies to help manage network traffic during
the deployment.

Microsoft Toolkit 2013 (

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One of the common purposes for using MDT 2013 Update 2 in an LTI or ZTI scenario
is to In this case, you separate reference-image
creation production deployment
reference reference computer a .wim file.
You computer with all of applications that
you want other computers and then capture file. You then can
use the .wim file as a basis of deployment through MDT, or alter it by adding drivers,
packages, and applications by using task sequences when deployment occurs.

When preparing to use the LTI method, you can divide your preparation into four
major

• Plan strategy. Your imaging how you

build computer.

• Install prerequisites and MDT 2013 Update ADK for

Windows 10, both of which are no-cost downloadable solution accelerators from
Microsoft. The LTI method has fewer prerequisites than other installation

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strategies.

• Create the deployment share. The deployment share is the repository for all of the
deployment files.

• Create and customize the task sequences. You can use task sequences to
automate the build and deployment processes.

Installing multistep process that is not installer

utility After choosing or building MDT, you
can download the MDT setup program
MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit2013_x64.msi.

Note: Windows ADK for Windows 10 must be installed prior to installing the
MDT 2013 Update 2 files. Otherwise, you cannot use the deployment share
node. Note that do not need to install all utilities in Windows ADK for
Windows MDT, you only need to install Tools,
Windows Environment (Windows

After installing the MDT, the next step is to start the Deployment Workbench and
begin configuring the MDT environment. In the Deployment Workbench, you should
configure the Components container first. The Components container displays the
status of the MDT components. Some components will display as already installed,
and some could show as required. Required components will need to be downloaded
and connected to the Internet, component,
and then download the component

After complete, you need deployment

share. share is created as a physical hard drive, and
most of the deployment share folders on the hard drive are directly represented as
folders in the Deployment Workbench. In addition to the default folders, you can

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create subfolders through the Deployment Workbench to keep your objects

organized. You can create multiple deployment shares to support multiple
deployment configurations, if wanted. You can also create deployment shares on
alternate servers across a wide area network (WAN) connection, especially when you
have limited bandwidth. To create a new deployment share, right-click the
Deployment Shares node, click Create New Deployment Share and then
complete Deployment Share

MDT the deployment of Operating

systems:

• Windows 10

• Windows Server 2016

• Windows 8.1

• Windows

• Windows

• Windows

• Windows 7

• Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows PE version 5.0

Demonstration: Preparing a Windows Image in

MDT
In this you will see how to:

• Create an MDT deployment share.

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• Examine the MDT deployment share properties.

• Import Windows Server 2016 operating system files into an MDT deployment
share.

Demonstration

Create share

1. D:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\20740

WinServer2016_1607.ISO into the virtual hard drive.

2. On the Start screen, open the Deployment Workbench item.

3. Right-click Deployment Shares, and then click New Deployment Share.

4. Create a DeploymentShare folder on drive C

5. Deployment Share Wizard

Examine deployment share properties

1. Expand both the Deployment Share and the MDT Deployment

Share(C:\DeploymentShare) nodes.

2. Open the Properties window for the MDT Deployment Share.

3. MDT Deployment \DeploymentShare)

4. Deployment Share (C:\DeploymentShare) Properties dialog

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Import operating system files into the deployment share

1. From the Operating System folder, click Import an Operating System.

2. Use the Import Operating System Wizard to import source files from the E:\
drive into a Destination directory name named WindowsServer2016.

3. Operating System Wizard

Check Knowledge

Categorize Activity
Categorize each item into the appropriate category. Indicate your answer by writing the
category number to the right of each item.

network
using

Allows you to create provisioning

packages to customize images
without having to re-image them.

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bootable

Contains SIM, which

can be used to make answer
files.

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Creates the Deployment Share.

Uses task sequences to capture

and deploy images.

server

Windows ADK for Windows 10

Please drag items here

Windows

Please drag items here

MDT

Please drag items here

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Lesson and managing images

by

You can automate the deployment operating systems,

applications, desktops, laptops, tablets, and servers in the enterprise. In essence, the
MDT helps you configure the unattended answer files and provides tools for
automating additional components and settings. The MDT allows you to automate the

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creation of a reference computer and then capture that computer to an image, which
you then can deploy to target computers.

Lesson objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Create

• Deploy

Creating images in MDT

MDT both boot and install discussed,

both wim files found on the Windows
operating Whenever you update a deployment update process
checks for changes and creates a new LTI boot image. The boot image is created in
both a .wim file and an .iso image file, which you then can use to create bootable

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media.

While you can use the original [Link] file found in the sources directory of the
installation media to deploy an image, in most cases you would want to customize
both the image as it exists as a .wim file in the MDT Deployment Share and through
the deployment of the image. By using MDT, you can deploy a .wim file to a reference
computer, software to the reference capture
the reference entirety to a .wim file. this .wim file
to many even add software, image as
part deploying.

When you follow the LTI process (which uses only the tools available in the MDT),
you perform the following high-level steps:

1. Install the MDT, create a deployment share on the management computer, and
files that you want to

2. and boot image for

3. share with any changes.

4. computer with the MDT provide access to

the task sequence files, the task sequence, and the boot image to the reference
computer.

5. Run the deployment wizard to install the operating system on the reference
computer, and capture an image of the reference computer.

6. to the management

7. and task sequence to image to

8. Update the deployment share.

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9. Boot the target computer with the MDT media. This will provide the reference
computer with access to the task sequence files, the task sequence, and the
boot image.

10. Run the deployment wizard to install the operating system on the target
computer.

The from the reference computer with

different meet the specific needs the time
you run For example, you might that includes
the Windows 10 Enterprise edition, in addition to Office Professional 2016. You
deploy this image out to a group of new computers you purchased for the Sales
department. However, you also have a Customer Relationship Manager (CRM)
software package you want to deploy to Sales. You can add the CRM software as an
application deployment as part of the hybrid image deployment. Later, you might
want to the Accounting without
the CRM financial program instead. as an
application deploying the hybrid

MDT sequence templates for the most deployment scenarios.

When creating task sequences for your deployments, you start by choosing one of
the available templates. Ten predefined task sequence templates and one custom
task sequence template are available:

• Sysprep and Capture Use to automate the running of the System Preparation
Tool ( capturing of a reference

• Standard Sequence. Use to create sequence for

deploying images to client computers. includes
several such as creating a reference which you can
enable or choose not to perform, as necessary. The next demonstration shows
you how to use this functionality.

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• Standard Client Replace Task Sequence. Use to back up a client system

completely, including the user state data, and then wipe the disk before deploying
an operating system.

• Standard Client Upgrade Task Sequence. Use to automate the process of

upgrading a computer currently running Windows 8.1, Windows 8, or Windows 7
to

• Litetouch Sequence. Use to preload images on

computers environment prior to deploying computers in the
production Typically, computer original manufacturers
(OEMs) template.

• Standard Server Task Sequence. Use to create the default task sequence for
deploying server operating system images to servers.

• Standard Server Upgrade Task Sequence. Use to automate the process of

upgrading running Windows Windows
Server Windows Server 2016.

• Post Sequence. Use to deploy an

operating computer, such as Update.

• Deploy to VHD Client Task Sequence. Use to deploy an operating system to a

target computer’s virtual hard disk for Boot from VHD installations on client
computers.

• Deploy to VHD Server Task Sequence. Use to deploy an operating system to a

virtual computer for Boot servers.

• Custom Use to create a customized custom

task task available after Application
task. other tasks to the

After you create a task sequence, you can further customize each task in the task

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sequence. You also can add new tasks to the task sequence.

You can use two files to control the behavior of installations that you deploy from a
deployment share. The rules shown in the Deployment Shares Properties are stored
in the [Link] file, which is in the deployment share in the Control folder.
The [Link] file is the primary configuration file for the deployment
share. deployment share settings.

Alternatively, [Link] file on stored in

the deployment Control folder. The BootStrap. processes before
the CustomSettings. file.

The [Link] file and the [Link] file are organized into sections.
The first section is the Settings section, which defines the file’s contents, including:

• Priority. sections to process during order in

which property is in both the
CustomSettings.

• Properties. variables that you are file. This

property [Link] file.

Additionally, each of the files contains the Default section, which stores the default
properties when you create a deployment share.

Deploying MDT

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When you update the deployment share, the LTI boot media is either created or
modified. includes the MDT program, Windows
Deployment performing a deployment. system by
using MDT program starts following
actions

1. The [Link] file is processed. When the computer first starts, the MDT
program processes [Link], and then uses the information to connect to
the deployment share.

2. After you connect to the deployment share, from the Welcome page, you can:

Deployment Wizard to install which

Deployment Wizard

Recovery Wizard, Recovery

o Exit to the command prompt.

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Additionally, you can choose the keyboard layout or configure a static IP address.
You also can configure the keyboard layout in the [Link] file.

Choosing the Run the Deployment Wizard to install a new operating system
involves the following steps:

1. box appears. If you

user credentials for accessing share, you
them.

2. [Link] file is processed. The [Link] file

includes settings for preconfiguring and skipping Windows Deployment
Wizard pages, including skipping the wizard altogether.

3. The Task Sequence page appears. After you apply the [Link]
file settings, the Windows Deployment Wizard presents the available task

After sequence, the Windows proceed

to show are appropriate for the type and task-sequence
template Settings in the [Link] prevent certain pages
from appearing.

When you perform a new computer deployment by using a task sequence based on
the standard client-task sequence and a default [Link] file, the
Windows will display the following

1. page allows you to name, Join

domain, and if joining information
domain.

2. Move Data and Settings. If the computer had an existing operating system,

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you could choose to Move the user data and settings to a specified location.

3. User Data (Restore). If you have previously used the Move the user data and
settings option as part of a computer migration, you can specify the location on
this page.

4. Locale and Time This page allows you to specify the language and time
deployment.

5. Details button on this the

configured. If you need the
return to the appropriate page. settings are correct,
click Begin to start the deployment.

Advanced Configuration node

The includes an Advanced that

contains can use to extend This
includes shares, support for standalone configuring an
MDT

MDT has a monitoring feature that the Deployment Workbench and MDT scripts
support. You can use the Monitoring node in the Deployment Workbench to view the
deployment process.

Selection

Selection create groups of folders

Workbench. folder that contains including
Applications, Systems, Out-of-Box Drivers, Task
Sequences. you create your selection profiles, you them in several
different locations, including:

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• The Deployment Share Properties dialog box, on the Windows PE tab, on the
Drivers and Patches tab. Here you can specify the selection profile to limit the
drivers that are added to the Windows PE boot image.

• An Inject Drivers task step. You use the selection profiles in this step to control the
drivers that are available for a particular task sequence.

• An You use the selection control

the are installed.

• The Here you use the selection the

Applications, Operating Systems, Out-of-Box Drivers, and Task
Sequences folders that deploy with standalone media.

• The New Linked Deployment Share Wizard. Here you use the selection profiles
to control the linked content.

The six selection profiles default.

Selection Description

Everything Contains all folders from all

All drivers Contains all folders from the Out-of-Box Drivers item

All drivers and packages Contains all folders from the Packages and Out-of-Box Drivers items

All packages Contains all folders from the Packages item

Nothing Includes no folders or items

Sample sample selection profile that Packages and

Sequences items

Linked shares

You can use linked deployment shares to connect two deployment shares logically.

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One deployment share acts as the source and the other deployment share is the
target. You use a selection profile to control the content copied to the target
deployment share. Using linked deployment shares allows you to use LTI
deployments in larger organizations, while keeping the management simple by
requiring that you update only the source deployment share.

Media

You create LTI media for media,

which an LTI deployment server. You
can create place it on a DVD, USB drive, media. You can
control the contents of the standalone media by choosing the appropriate selection
profile when you start the New Media Wizard.

Database

By default, you use with your task in the

CustomSettings. your deployments grow conditions
that you [Link] file might to
manage this challenge, you Server
database conditions that you want to creating the database,
you run the Configure DB Wizard to configure the [Link] file to use
the MDT database.

Monitoring MDT deployments

Monitoring default. The process is

different and Configuration Manager-based deployments. To
configure deployments, you need Deployment
Share box, on the Monitoring Enable monitoring
for this deployment share option to make changes to your management computer.
These changes include:

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• Installing the MDT Monitor service (MDT_Monitor). This service receives and
stores the events from the computers that are being monitored. It also provides
the information to the Deployment Workbench.

• Installing an SQL compact database. Only the MDT Monitor service uses this
database.

Updating ini file with the EventService value of

[Link] Computer>:9800. This connection Microsoft
Internet Services (IIS). It uses features Framework to
provide the HTTP functionality. After you enable the monitoring feature, you can
monitor deployments by using the Monitoring node in the Deployment Workbench.
You will need to refresh the Monitoring node periodically.

Check

Select
Which operating systems can deploy? Choose
all that

Windows 7

Windows Server Vista

Windows 10

Windows 2008

Windows

Check answer Reset

Lesson 3: Virtual machine environments for different

workloads

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Prior to implementing virtualization in your organization, you must first determine key
evaluation factors that you can use to assess your organization’s virtualization
requirements. You will learn about some of the available resources, including solution
accelerators such as the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP). This
lesson also describes some of the principal design factors for implementing a server
virtualization solution.

Lesson
After you will be able to:

• Evaluate your organization’s requirements for server virtualization.

• Describe the virtualization solution accelerators.

• Describe the assessment features of MAP.

• Assess environment by using MAP.

• Design virtualization.

Evaluation factors

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When you consider the challenges presented by the traditional computer and
application server virtualization is many of
the known your server virtualization important first
step, that will contribute to project is
the beginning Some of the important as
follows:

• Project scope. You should define the virtualization project scope as early on as
possible. You should determine the business factors driving the project, the staff
that is responsible for determining these factors, and their goals.

You you will measure your

company Microsoft Exchange Server Server
2013, project scope might include elements, but
the overall measured by a transparent upgrade organization’s email
platform. However, if your project scope is to implement or upgrade a server
virtualization strategy, Exchange Server might just be a milestone goal of the overall

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consolidation or improvement program. Understanding budgets and documenting the

project are also important factors.

• Resource and performance. Assessing the resource and performance of the

servers to be virtualized is another evaluation factor. You can use MAP to provide
detailed information on the number of hosts and the host hardware requirements.

Typically, require approximately a

physical example, if a physical server GB of
RAM, virtual machine to RAM,
assuming the same operating system as the physical
server. If a single virtual machine consumes more than half of your host’s
workload, you should consider whether virtualization is appropriate or if the host’s
sizing is adequate.

Hardware is not the only consideration when implementing a server virtualization

solution. review all aspects of
requirements deciding whether you can factors to
consider whether to virtualize

• Compatibility. determine whether the

virtualization environment. Business applications simple programs to
complex, distributed multiple-tier applications. You need to consider requirements
for specific components of distributed applications, such as specific needs for
communication with other infrastructure components, or requirements for direct
access to the system hardware. While you can virtualize some servers easily,
other might need to continue running dedicated hardware.

• Applications Applications and services hardware

or generally are not well suited
application good candidate for it contains
low-level require direct access to the hardware. This might not
be possible through a virtualization interface, or it could affect performance
negatively.

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• Supportability. You need to evaluate if a virtualized environment will support your

operating system and requisite applications. Verify vendor support policies for
operating system and application deployment using the virtualization technologies.

• Licensing. You also need to evaluate whether you can license the application for
use in a virtual environment. Reduced licensing costs for multiple applications or
operating up and make a strong using
virtualization.

• Availability Most organizations have that must

always virtual environment for provide
built-in enabling high availability, while applications could be more
difficult to make highly available outside of a virtual machine environment. When
considering whether to virtualize a server, evaluate whether the application has
high availability options, whether a virtual machine environment supports those
options, and whether you can use failover clustering to make the virtual machine
highly

The is to utilize all servers they are

physical fully utilize some server Server or
Exchange Mailbox servers, by deploying additional Server instances or
moving more mailboxes to the server. In some cases, you can virtualize server
workloads in one scenario, but not in other scenarios. For example, in a very large
domain with thousands of users logging on simultaneously, it might not be practical to
virtualize a domain controller. However, in a smaller domain or in a branch office
deployment, controllers might

Overview virtualization solution

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You can use MAP to conduct network-wide deployment readiness assessments and
to determine migrate Microsoft technologies servers,
desktops, virtual environment. can
determine can upgrade to Windows servers
you can machines on Hyper-V in and which
client upgrade to Windows 10. primary tool to help
you identify which applications, desktops, and servers would make ideal candidates
for virtualization.

Note: As the time of writing this Module, Microsoft last release of MAP is
version 9.3, which does not include Windows Server 2016.
The included operating systems are: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8,
Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012,
Windows 2008 R2 SP1
A MAP will be released after of Windows

You can use MAP to perform the following key functions:

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• Hardware inventory. MAP uses a secure process, which does not utilize an agent,
to collect and organize system resources and device information across your
network from a single networked computer. Some of the examples of the
information that MAP returns include operating system information, system
memory details, installed drivers, and installed applications. MAP saves this
information in a local database, and then uses it to provide you with specific
reports recommendations.

• MAP are already available to

perform assessments. These technologies Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP), AD DS, and the Computer Browser
service.

You can use MAP to inventory the following operating systems and applications:

o Windows 10

o Microsoft Office 2010 and newer Office versions

o Windows Server 2012

o Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2

o Explorer 9 and older versions

o Business

o System Center Configuration Manager

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o System Center Endpoint Protection

o SQL Server

o VMware vSphere

o VMware vCenter

o Select Linux distributions

o LAMP application stack discovery

o MySQL

• Data performs a detailed analysis

compatibility migration to:

o Windows 10

o Windows 8

o SQL Server 2008 R2

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o Microsoft Office 2010

o Office 365

• Readiness reporting. MAP generates reports containing both summary and

detailed assessment results for each migration scenario. MAP provides these
results in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word documents. Readiness reports are
available technologies including Windows

• MAP performance metrics consolidation

recommendations. recommendations identify server
virtualization, makes suggestions for how physical
servers in a virtualized environment.

Infrastructure Planning and Design guides

The Design guides are

architectural and streamline the design planning
Microsoft technologies. Each guide infrastructure
technology including server virtualization, virtualization, and
Remote Services implementations.

Windows Server Virtualization guide

The Windows Server Virtualization guide focuses on an earlier version of Hyper-V.

However, guidance on how to plan virtualization
on Hyper-V.

Assessment of the MAP toolkit

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Microsoft provides MAP as the primary tool for server virtualization planning. It is
easy administrators through use of built-
in wizards, reports.

Gathering is one evaluation have

evaluation for inclusion. For example, Operations Manager to
monitor your physical servers and virtual machines, your inventory and performance
data might already be collected. You could use these Operations Manager reports to
gather useful information. When you want to plan for capacity and growth, you can
use Data Protection Manager (DPM) to review data trends by running capacity
reports. summarizes MAP features for server
virtualization

MAP

MAP can discover Windows, Linux, UNIX, and VMware servers, computers, and
virtual machines. It has the following discovery methods and requirements for
creating an inventory:

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• AD DS. Requires domain credentials. You can use this method to discover all
computers in all domains or in specified domains, containers, and organization
units.

• Windows networking protocols, using the WIN32 LAN Manager application

programming interface (API). Requires the Computer Browser service to be
running the server running method to
discover workgroups and Windows NT

• Configuration MAP can use either Configuration Microsoft

Systems Server (an older version Manager) for
discovery. discovery, you require the primary and appropriate
credentials for Configuration Manager or Systems Management Server.

• IP Address Range. You can scan for computers and servers using one or more IP
address ranges, up to a maximum of 100,000 addresses.

• NetBIOS can discover computers entering their

NetBIOS or by importing the

MAP Metrics

After you have an inventory of discovered hardware, you can collect performance
metrics for your assessment. To gather performance metrics, you must run the
Performance Metrics Wizard. You can collect metrics for Windows and Linux-based
machines by using WMI or Secure Shell. The minimum collection period is 30
minutes. schedule an end date collection
should

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Note: If required, you can use the Performance Metrics Wizard to collect
additional metrics. You must choose to either discard previous metrics or
append the new ones to existing data.
While the performance metric data collection is running, you might not be able
to perform other tasks with MAP.

MAP

MAP provides you with details hardware that

you should virtualization host servers. Hardware
Library enter the resources such and type of
processors, amount of RAM, and storage capacity. After configuring these hardware
parameters, you can determine the number of host servers required. If required, you
also can create a configuration for shared storage and network configurations, which
will help ensure that you plan clusters and share components correctly.

MAP

The Virtualization and Consolidation provide

planning following versions of Hyper-V:

• Window Server 2012 Hyper-V

• Window Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Hyper-V

• Window Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

• Window Hyper-V

To use must first complete an inventory, performance metrics,

and input the hardware configuration. When you run the wizard, you can select a
utilization ceiling on the proposed hardware, which allows for periodic spikes in

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utilization. The utilization settings include processor, memory, storage capacity,

storage I/O operations per second, and network throughput. Upon completing this
wizard, MAP will provide you with the recommended number of hosts.

MAP Private Cloud Fast Track

The Track Wizard provides upon a

program between Microsoft and The goal of
the program organizations decrease the of
implementing

Demonstration: Assessing the computing environment by

using the MAP toolkit
In this demonstration, you will see how to use MAP for planning server virtualization,
including:

• Use data.

• Use performance data.

• Create configuration.

• Review the collected data.

Demonstration steps

Use data

1. Microsoft Assessment Toolkit.

2. Data source page, in the Create database section

in the Name text box, type Demo, and then click OK.

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3. Click Server Virtualization, and then click Collect inventory data.

4. In the Inventory and Assessment Wizard, on the Inventory Scenarios page,

select both Windows computers and Use Active Directory Domain Services
(AD DS).

5. On the Active Directory Credentials page, the following credentials:

administrator

[Link]

6. On the Active Directory Options page, ensure that Find all computers in all
domains, containers, and organizational units is selected, and then click
Next.

7. Credentials page, use

administrator

[Link]

8. Complete the wizard.

9. When the Inventory and Assessment page opens, review the results of the
data collection, wait for the assessment to show as complete, and then close

Use performance data

1. Run the Performance Metrics Wizard.

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2. In the wizard, select all computers.

3. On the All Computer Credential page, ensure that the adatum\administrator

account is selected.

4. Review the details on the metrics page, and then close the window.

Create configuration

Before features, you must process

that was previous step.

1. At the bottom left of the MAP console screen, in the running task drop-down list
box, click Cancel processing, and then click Yes.

2. Under the Steps to complete section, click Create hardware configuration.

3. Scenarios page, click General

Virtualization, and

4. Configuration page, click Create

Server-Type1.

5. Complete the wizard using approximate values based on a server that you
might use.

Review

1. the console tree, select Virtualization.

2. select Hardware Library

3. Review the Configurations collected. When done, go back to the main MAP

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console.

4. Note that you could also run the Server Consolidation and Private Cloud
Fast Track wizards, which, due to time constraints, will not be done.

Designing for server virtualization

Many organizations that adopt server virtualization develop a server implementation

policy to virtualize all new and replaced systems. These organizations opt for
deploying physical hardware as an alternative to virtualization only when a valid
reason custom server hardware server
virtualization application vendor application
on virtualized

You now Windows Server 2012 R2 to deploy to 320 logical

processors and 4 terabytes (TB) of system memory. This, in turn, allows new
capabilities for virtual workloads and is a significant improvement over earlier
hypervisors.

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Implementing a new virtualization solution can often include assessing physical and
virtual servers, or assessing an existing virtualization solution. A new virtualization
solution can provide an opportunity to consolidate physical servers, and, in an
existing server virtualization solution, it can improve virtual machine density per host,
possibly by virtualizing some more demanding workloads.

As a virtualization project following steps:

1. virtualization scope. The first virtualization

project’s scope. You projects,
address different parts of an virtualization
strategy. To ensure that a project is successful, you must define scope,
milestones, and goals.

2. Determine the workloads. Create a list of potential workloads that you want to
virtualize, identify the workloads that cannot be virtualized, then use MAP to
the remaining servers. performance
servers for a suitable

3. and fault-tolerance requirements workload. You

requirements when designing the deployment. For
example, some server workloads might require frequent and consistent backup
of data located inside the virtual machine, while other server workloads might
require just a virtual machine-level or configuration information backup. You use
the fault-tolerance requirements for the server workload when you deploy
clustered virtual machines, or to provide another method for ensuring high
machine.

4. design of the virtualization hardware

MAP Server Virtualization Consolidation Wizard
design of the host server infrastructure. best practice, to
simplify management, you should creating a standard
design for all virtualization hosts. Decide if you will require a maintenance host.

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As part of the host server design, you also need to consider the number of
virtual machines that each host computer will be running.

5. Map workloads to hosts. After designing the host server hardware, you can start
mapping the virtual machines to the host servers. There are many factors that
you need to consider during this design, including:

How many virtual machines a host?

much of a resource implement

computer?

performance characteristics utilization. Can

you characterize the network, CPU, disk, and memory utilization for each of
the virtual machines on a host? You might choose to deploy virtual machines
with different resource requirements on the same host.

6. Design host backup and fault tolerance. Use the information that collected
fault-tolerance requirements machines to
availability solution

7. requirements. As part of discovery, you

documented the storage requirements virtual machine.
Before moving the server workloads to virtual machines, ensure that you have
space for both the operating system virtual hard disks and the data associated
with each virtual machine. You also need to include storage availability and
performance requirements. You can use the MAP share infrastructure
configuration to assist in determining your storage requirements.

8. requirements. As a final design

plan the network design. your network
consider a number of factors:

network access do the virtual require? Most virtual

machines likely will require access to the physical network, but some virtual

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machines might only need to communicate with other virtual machines on

the same host computer.

• How much network bandwidth does each virtual machine require?

• What are the network reliability requirements for each virtual machine?

virtualization be used?

virtualization project is a Often,

new virtualization technology, concept (POC) can
be of great help in determining the final infrastructure. A POC can also help
bring staff up to speed on the deployment and management technologies that
will be used in the final solution.

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Discovery
You are Adatum company. Your infrastructure
consists datacenters connected to each Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS) network. Over the previous decade, the company has made several
different server purchases, and recently added Hyper-V servers with virtual servers
running various server roles. The CIO has decided that it is time for a datacenter
hardware update. You have been asked to develop a cost-effective plan to upgrade or
replace all the older systems to Hyper-V capable servers. As part of the planning phase,
you have comments from the various administrators about
the environment. frequent complaints could
you use assist with the migration assess the
complaints, performance issues, as necessary?

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Lab: Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016

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Scenario
Adatum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head
office based in London, UK. An IT office and datacenter are located in London to
support the London location and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a
Windows Server 2016 server and client infrastructure.

As the has become apparent significant

time deployment is automated by images rather
than server. You decided automation
process servers using MDT.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Configure 2.

• Create images by using MDT.

Lab

Estimated time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines: 20740C-LON-DC1, 20740C-LON-SVR1, and 20740C-LON-SVR6

User Adatum\Administrator

Password:

For this the available virtual machine Before you begin

the lab, you must complete the following steps:

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1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V Manager, click 20740C-LON-DC1, and then, in the Actions pane,

click Start.

3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. following credentials:

Administrator

Adatum

5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 for 20740C-LON-SVR1. Do not start 20740C-LON-

SVR6 until directed to do so in the lab.

Exercise MDT

Scenario

To make rapid deployments of custom images Corporation

datacenters, you have been given the task of testing the MDT 2013 Update 2. Your
first step for the Windows Server 2016 deployment is to configure MDT before you
can begin testing.

The is as follows:

• Configure share

Detailed Steps ▼

Result: After completing this exercise, you should have configured MDT 2013

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Update 2 and the MDT Deployment Share.

Exercise 2: Creating and deploying an image

Scenario

LON-SVR6 without an operating MDT

2013 reference image of Windows then
deploy deployment to LON-SVR6 Excel
viewer

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Add a reference image (Windows Server 2016)

2. image

3. task sequence

4. LON-SVR6

5. module

Detailed Steps ▼

Detailed Steps

Detailed Steps

Detailed Steps

Detailed Steps

Result: After completing this exercise, you should have used MDT 2013 Update 2
to deploy Windows Server 2016 to LON-SVR6, and then you should have tested

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the deployment of an application.

Review Question(s)

Check Your Knowledge

Discovery
In the Monitoring node to observe sequence
status. there are no values in detail pane?

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Check Your Knowledge

Discovery
When source files, four separate Why?

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Module takeaways

Best Practice:
• Build your reference system by using a virtual machine. This will avoid
having an image with any hardware-specific configurations embedded.

• Create folders in the Out-of-Box-Drivers node to organize all your vendor

or model-specific drivers.

• Use Profile Selections to deploy only the required drivers to a given

hardware configuration.

• Build thin images and apply applications on demand through the

applications node. This will allow you to keep the application current as
updates and patches are released, without having to rebuild the image.

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Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

Mismatch between versions of MDT and Please see Student Companion Content for this course.
Windows AIK or Windows ADK.

Cannot Boot Please see Student course.

folder

In MAP, operations, Please see Student course.

you task
processor You cannot
perform operation the task
processor is running. Please wait for the
task processor to complete or cancel the
task process before retrying this operation.”

Review Question(s)

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Discovery
What bypass having to enter credentials the deployment
share?

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Real-world Issues and Scenarios

When toolkit, consider backing regularly. If

you are over a long period, critical to
the timeframe

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