Hey Checkyourlogs Fans,
I was on a call with a customer today that we’ve been supporting for a long time. We help them with their Windows Deployment / Imaging solution, and along these lines, we have setup an extremely thin imaging process. What we wanted was when the next version of Windows 10 comes out, ie. 1803 or 1809. We wanted to be able to update the task sequence with a few simple steps.
Here is what we do when the new version comes out:
Step 1 – Download the new ISO from the Volume Licensing site.
Step 2 – Mount the ISO
Step 3 – Open the MDT Deployment Workbench
Step 4 – Update the Source Images and add the new WIM
Step 5 – Update the Task Sequence with the new WIM – In this case we updated to Windows 10 1809
Here is before:
Here is After:
Step 6 – Update the Deployment Share
Step 7 – Test
That’s it we have now updated the thin imaging process to the new WIM file.
We do this approximately every 6 months to keep the new images current.
Thanks,
Dave
Hi Dave,
Came across your great blog post while searing for methods to automate our deployment process for newer version of Windows 10.
Currently we use an older version of MDT ( 2013 update 2 ver 6.3.8330.1000) and ADK ( ver 10.1.10586.0) and it is working flawlessly for deploying Win 10 Pro v1607 for last two years.
After completion of the deployment, we are manually upgrading the deployed image through a bootable USB containing Win 10 Pro v1903.
On various forums I have read that we would be required to upgrade our MDT and ADK to the latest version to deploy Win 10 v1903.
You have mentioned that by your method you are updating the thin image every six months.
Kindly let me know if your method will work for us with the older version of MDT that we are using.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Pankaj
Hey Pankaj it should work fine.