MDT 2010 has been released overnight. This is the free OS image deployment product that will find its way onto a lot of networks to help people migrate to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can also deploy older operating systems. It uses task sequences to allow you to graphically program the process of not only deploying an operating system but also drivers, patches, applications, etc. Out of the box, the sequence templates are very powerful, e.g. you can migrate from XP to Windows 7 while restoring data, you can do clean builds and you can capture sysprepped builds.
I’ve done some documentation on MDT 2010 to help you get started.
According to the Springboard blog:
“Michael Niehaus did a great series of blog posts on most of the new features of MDT 2010. You can review those posts here.
Please make sure you review the release notes for instructions on how to upgrade from MDT 2008 or one of the beta releases of MDT 2010 here”.