Ok, so its been a little bit since my last post but today I will be documenting how we go about using MDT to deploy a simple Windows 10 build.
Now if you havent set up your MDT environment then head to my MDT Deployment guide (Part 1). If you are wanting to see this guide but for Windows 8.1 then head to my MDT Deployment Guide (Part 5).
First up you need to add the Windows 10 install files. Go ahead and do that now
Next we need to create a Windows 10 Task Sequence
Go through the options and select what applies to you. Choose the O/S to be Windows 10
Once your task sequence is completed the next part we are going to look at is the unattended file. Now if you remember from my MDT Guide Part 5 there was a section in there that dealt with Answer files. Im going to teach you a much quicker method when dealing with multiple task sequences and images.
If you go into the DeploymentShare folder and head to Control you can find all your task sequences within their own folder. Go into that folder and edit the Unattend.xml file
Do a find and replace of the text en-US and replace it with en-NZ. Then do the same for 0409:00000409 and replace it with 1409:00000409. The unattend file is in XML format and you can quickly swap all the settings over within 10 seconds vs the minutes taken when editing using Windows System Image Manager.
Now within this Windows 10 build we are going to edit a few things within our Task Sequence. Here Ill show you how to add a role to the build.
In the state Restore part we want to Add -> Roles -> Install Roles and Features. Add this just below the Tattoo phase and before the Windows Update phase.
In the properties tab of this ensure that the O/S matches for the O/S you are installing. This way the roles and features will match up.
Lastly we can check our MDT rules. As set previously ensure that the TimeZoneName and UserLocale are set for NZ specific settings.
This brings us to the end of our MDT – Windows 10 Deployment guide Part 1. Part 2 will show you what our building process looks like.