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DiogoSousa
Mar 14, 2018Iron Contributor
How to start a deployment directly from a Windows 7 client?
Hello and greetings from Portugal,
Now...I know this may be a stupid question but after years of MDT deployment never tried this...
Is it possible to launch an MDT deployment directly from a ...
Michael Niehaus
Mar 19, 2018Former Employee
To start a deployment from the existing Windows 7 client, map a drive to the deployment share and then run LiteTouch.vbs from that share, e.g.:
net use Z: \\server\DeploymentShare$
cscript.exe z:\Scripts\LiteTouch.vbs
All Lite Touch task sequences are designed to be run in this way (to do a refresh/wipe-load deployment), as well as a bare metal deployment (initiated from media, PXE, etc.).
That should be covered extensively in the MDT documentation. If you can't find that in the docs, let me know.
Marcel Bösing
Mar 20, 2018Copper Contributor
Thanks Michael,
I was not aware that it is so easy :-)