What is PDT? PDT refers to PowerShell Deployment Toolkit. It is a community Toolkit to help automate System Center deployment.
PDT is posted to the TechNet Gallery here.
PDT consists of 5 files:
- Installer.ps1 is the PowerShell script that you run to actually perform the deployment. It should be run from a system that is not a target system for the deployment itself – it can even be run from a workstation.
- Workflow.xml contains all the “knowledge” of how to deploy system center – we will look in more detail at the content of this file in later posts.
- Variable.xml is the file that you modify to define your deployment.
- Downloader.ps1 is a utility to allow you to obtain all the software required to deploy. Using this utility will be the topic of another post.
- VMCreator.ps1 is a utility to quickly create domain joined VMs on which to deploy. Using this utility will be the topic of another post