MDT 2008 - deploying server 2008 - some prelim questions

James

2009-04-10 13:43:33 UTC

the mist is clearing... this series by Mitch Tulloch was very helpful
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Deploying-Vista-Understanding-Windows-AIK.html

I was looking at it from the wrong end... meaning, I went right to thinking
about how to do this using MDT when really, I first needed to update myself
on deploying vista/2008 in general... which the article series above does a
nice job of

Post by James
Hello,
I've been working with mdt 2008 for a while now, but have only been using
it to deploy server 2003. Now I'm going to use for deploying server 2008.
I know the setup process changed a lot from 2003 to 2008.
in mdt 2008 task sequence properties, for a server 2008 build, on the 'os
info' tab, there is only the 'edit unattended.xml' button where for 2003
build there are options to edit both sysprep.inf and unattend.txt.... so
for 2003 builds I would make sure all the right components get installed
using unattend.txt (like IIS, asp etc...), put the necessary stuff in
sysprep.inf to automate mini-setup, and then use scripting to automate
post image deployment configurations.
So how is this handled for 2008? Does unattend.xml handle both the
unattended build *and* the automation of mini-setup after sysprep?