Automated Windows Server 2008 Imaging and Deployment Using the Microsoft Deployment Accelerator

Deployment tools for Windows Server 2008 have changed and most legacy tools will not support automated installation of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. The fourth generation deployment accelerator supports Windows Server 2008 imaging and deployment. This session is delivered by solution developers and explains how you can use Microsoft Deployment to plan deployments, create disk images, customize installation task sequences, automate disk and NIC configuration, and automate server role definition. We discuss the current released tools (System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Windows Deployment Services [WDS] with multicast support), features and limitations, and the Microsoft Deployment release roadmap.