Do you want to deploy Windows 8.1 the “right way”?
Find out how to avoid deployment pitfalls and how to streamline the process with a team of experts, including a key Developer of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). Benefit from their real-life experience with early adopters, in this recorded session with live Q&A. They start with the basics and then dive deep to teach you how to plan, configure, and manage client deployment to Windows-based computers in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and the MDT. Get tips on saving time and money by automating some (if not all) of the process. Why learn the hard way? Join us here on Microsoft Virtual Academy to find out more.
Course Outline:
- OS Deployment Scenarios
- OS Deployment Tools Overview
- Overview of Windows ADK 8.1 and WDS
- Introduction to the MDT 2013
- Identify, Build, and Test Master Images
- Import Master Images
- Create Deployment Task Sequences
- Enable Dynamic Deployment (Rules)
- Configuration Manager 2012 R2
Instructor Team
Ben Hunter | Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager
Ben Hunter is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Windows Commercial. He is a Kiwi who has worked across continents—in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—as an IT professional for the past 18 years. He joined Microsoft New Zealand eight years ago as an infrastructure consultant. He then moved to Redmond to serve as a Lead Architect for the Microsoft Consulting Services worldwide client solution team. For the last two years, Ben worked with early adopters of Windows 8 and 8.1. He is now responsible for management of the worldwide Windows IT pro community, managing the technical content on the Springboard Series on TechNet, managing the Windows IT PRO MVPs, the Springboard Insider Newsletter, the Windows Springboard Team Blog, and the Springboard Technical Experts Panel (STEP) program.
Michael Niehaus | Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager | @mniehaus
Michael Niehaus is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, responsible for helping enterprise IT pros with Windows deployment, Windows RT, and Windows manageability needs. Prior to joining the Windows Commercial team, he was a longtime Program Manager and Developer for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Michael joined Microsoft in 2004 after spending 14 years working in enterprise IT.
Johan Arwidmark | Microsoft MVP and Chief Technical Architect at Knowledge Factory | @jarwidmark
Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author, and all-around geek specializing in enterprise Windows deployment solutions. His areas of expertise include: enterprise Windows deployment tools and solutions, MDT, WinPE, USMT, WDS, and Configuration Manager.
Johan speaks around the world at several conferences each year, including MMS and TechEd. He is also actively involved in communities like deploymentresearch.com and myitforum.com, and he has been awarded MVP for seven years.
Mikael Nystrom | Microsoft MVP and Senior Executive Consultant at TrueSec | @mikael_nystrom
Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Executive Consultant at TrueSec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kinds of infrastructure tasks, in various environments, from enterprise to small business. He is working deep within products, like Microsoft Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, MDT, SharePoint, Exchange, Active Directory, SBS, and EBS. Mikael is a very popular instructor and often speaks at Microsoft partner trainings and major conferences, including TechEd and MMS. He has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as a member of the TAP team.
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