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Anonymous

Jun 08, 2017

Deploying laptop images

We have about 1600 student laptops in the school that we usually reimage during the summer. We are looking for the most effective method to deploy images (that include Windows, Office 365, security s...

Sean Hasling

Brass Contributor

Jun 12, 2017

SCCM is another option. or SCCM + MDT

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mt240567.aspx

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/deploying-windows-10-using-system-center-configuration-manager-16311

Does this help you out? I work for an educational institution as well. We are currently using WDS to complete images, but are looking to move to WDS + MDT, and then eventually to SCCM. We may skip MDT, depending on how fast we have access to SCCM.

Sven Aelterman
MCT
Jun 12, 2017
I wouldn't "skip" MDT... MDT integrated with SCCM is a little different of course but still, it's a best practice to buid your reference image(s) using MDT Lite Touch.
- Sean Hasling
  Brass Contributor
  Jun 13, 2017
  MDT and SCCM seem to be almost the same thing. With some of the difficulties we (and others) have run into with MDT, do we really need it if we are using SCCM?
  - SigurdWerner
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 21, 2017
    I never used MDT integration in SCCM (in many environements in different companies) and never run in somthing I couldn't handle in SCCM directly. I know that consultants often come with MDT integration, since it can easyly adjusted by all the vbs-scripts driving MDT