Presentation about zero-touch Windows 8.1 deployment using System Center 2012 R2: Configuration Manager product, delivered at Microsoft NetWork 4 conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

3. Configuration Manager:
zero-touch & Windows 8.1
Tomica Kaniški
tomica@kaniski.info
CITUS d.o.o.

5. AGENDA
• Tools
– MAP
– Windows ADK
– MDT
– Configuration Manager
• Steps
– Planning
– Installation & configuration
– Deployment
– Migration of Windows XP machines

6. TOOLS

7. MICROSOFT ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING
TOOLKIT (MAP)
• FREE, agentless, automated, multi-product
planning and assessment tool for quicker and
easier desktop, server and cloud migrations
• provides detailed readiness assessment reports and
executive proposals with extensive hardware and
software information, and actionable
recommendations
• HINT: cannot be installed on a Domain Controller! 
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7826 <<<

8. DEMO
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

9. WINDOWS ASSESSMENT AND
DEPLOYMENT KIT (WADK)
• „refreshed” Windows AIK
– for deployment of Windows 8(.1)
• DISM replaced ImageX, PowerShell support for DISM,
offline BitLocker, and the list goes on... 
• Deployment Tools
– Windows System Image Manager (SIM)
– Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) Tool
– User State Migration Tool
– Volume Activation Management Tool
– Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)
– Application Compatibility Toolkit
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39982 <<<

10. MICROSOFT DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT (MDT)
• free tool created to help with „easier” Windows
deployments (mostly LTI scenarios)
– „wrapper or GUI for WADK/WAIK”
• Information Center – documentation, additional
components, etc.
• Deployment Share – collection of operating systems,
updates, applications, drivers and task sequences
• can be easily integrated with System Center 2012 R2:
Configuration Manager
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40796 <<<

11. SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2:
CONFIGURATION MANAGER (CONFIGMGR)
• enterprise-class tool for unified (client) management,
software deployments, assessments, etc.
• part of System Center 2012 R2 suite
• enabler of ZTI scenarios
• relatively easy to install, but powerful
• can be easily integrated with MDT

12. DEMO
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Configuration Manager & MDT symbiosis

13. STEPS

14. 0. PLANNING
• run MAP Toolkit (or use Configuration Manager) to
assess your environment
• create a test environment if possible
• prepare software and hardware prerequisites
• prepare upgrade/installation plan
• …
• REMEMBER: Our goal is to install/upgrade to
Windows 8.1 „without touching” the client machines!

15. 1. INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION (1)
• create the needed virtual machines
– PowerShell??? 
• install everything necessary
– Active Directory environment with DNS & DHCP
• „classic setup”
– Certification Authority
• certificate needed for SQL Server configuration
– SQL Server 2012 SP1
• Database Engine, Reporting Services
• collation!!! (SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS)
• firewall!
• configure certificate (and private key access!)

16. 1. INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION (2)
• Configuration Manager (1)
– install prerequisites:
• Install-WindowsFeature Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-Metabase, Web-WMI, Web-
Windows-Auth, BITS, RDC, NET-Framework-Features, Web-Asp-Net, Web-
Asp-Net45, NET-HTTP-Activation, NET-Non-HTTP-Activ
– install (and configure) WSUS
• external database
• add SQL Server privileges (for CM machine account)!
– install Windows ADK (for Windows 8.1)
• Deployment Tools, Windows PE & USMT

17. 1. INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION (3)
• Configuration Manager (2)
– SQL Server
• configure firewall, open WMI!
• add CM computer account to local Administrators group!
– Active Directory
• create container SystemSystem Management
• assign permissions for CM computer account
• extend schema (optional) (extadsch.exe)

18. DEMO
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Installation hints...

19. 2. DEPLOYMENT
• steps:
1. create boundaries
• don’t forget to add site system servers to the boundaries/boundary groups!
2. enable Distribution Point for PXE (installs the Windows
Deployment Services automatically) & restart
3. add install (and boot) images to ConfigMgr (and distribute)
4. create (and deploy) the task sequence for installation
• don’t forget to configure the Network Access Account also!
(Administration – Site Configuration – Sites – <site> – Configure Site
Components – Software Distribution)
5. restart the client computer and install Windows 8.1 from the
network

20. DEMO
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Deployment of Windows 8.1 clients

21. 3. MIGRATION OF WINDOWS XP CLIENTS
• steps:
1. install ConfigMgr client software on the client machine
2. add install (and boot) images to ConfigMgr (and distribute
content)
3. create and add USMT 5.0 package to ConfigMgr
(and distribute content)
• install Windows ADK 8.0 on separate computer and then copy the files, or
download them from http://1drv.ms/1qOi62t
4. add State Migration Point to ConfigMgr
5. create (and deploy) two task sequences:
• Capture client machine data
• Install Windows 8.1 with data restore
6. run the "Capture client machine data" task sequence
7. run the "Install Windows 8.1 with data restore" task sequence

22. DEMO
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Migration of Windows XP machines

23. AGENDA
• Tools
– MAP
– Windows ADK
– MDT
– Configuration Manager
• Steps
– Planning
– Installation & configuration
– Deployment
– Migration of Windows XP machines

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25. THANK YOU!
♦
tomica@kaniski.info

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