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
If you are interested, also check out the MMS2013 session on this topic: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/SD-B302
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