MDT Create a Deployment Share

Tools Required
MDT

Key Terms / Acronyms
%DeployRoot% - The location of the Deployment Share on your file system (eg. C:\DeploymentShare)
%DeploymentShare% - The Network Share of the %DeployRoot% (eg. \\ComputerName\DeploymentShare$)



Now the fun starts.  You should have a nice Tile on your Start screen for Microsoft Deployment.  Let's launch it for the first time.

• Right click on Deployment Shares > New Deployment Share

• New Deployment Share Wizard > Path
• Enter the Deployment share path
• [Next]

• New Deployment Share Wizard > Share
• Enter a Share name
• [Next]

• New Deployment Share Wizard > Descriptive Name
• Enter a Deployment share description
• [Next]

• New Deployment Share Wizard > Options
• Uncheck everything, we are not going to make any images
• [Next]

• New Deployment Share Wizard > Summary
• [Next]

When the Deployment Share has been completed, you will have a summary of what was completed.

If we did everything right, we should now have a Deployment Share in MDT

Other References
Petril: How to Create a Deployment Share
msadministrator: Creating an MDT Deployment Share

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