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Solution Framework

You use the solution framework (technology files) to set up the imaging and deployment servers. This framework helps you create standard desktop configurations. It includes tools to build and deploy custom Windows 7 images with a variety of special needs, such as backing up the destination computer prior to deployment, capturing and restoring user state, enabling Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption, and so on. By using the solution framework as your starting point, you can take advantage of the deployment best practices that Microsoft and its customers have developed over several years, most of which are manifested in the framework's script code.

Note The solution framework does not contain copies of Windows 7 or the 2007 Microsoft Office system. To use MDT 2010, you must acquire licensed copies of this software and other hardware-specific software such as DVD-player software and CD-creation software. Each technical guide in MDT 2010 describes requirements for using the guidance as well as the tools.

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In this tutorial:

  1. Planning Deployment
  2. Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
  3. Documentation
  4. Solution Framework
  5. Planning High-Volume Deployment
  6. Envision
  7. Project Planning
  8. Build
  9. Planning Low-Volume Deployment
  10. Scope and Objectives
  11. Configuration Plan
  12. Windows 7 Requirements
  13. Preparing for Development
  14. Image Engineering
  15. Infrastructure Remediation
  16. Installing the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
  17. Starting Deployment Workbench
  18. Updating Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Components