MDT and SCCM integration

Chronictank

Chronictank

Chronictank

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Hi all,
I have been trying to find some definitive answers for this but am at a loss
Does anyone know what the benefit of using MDT integration in SCCM over just a Vanilla install
After all you can do pretty much everything in SCCM that MDT does so i can't really see the benefit
 
You get a bunch of additional task sequence entries as well as the ability to use the MDT task sequence variables.

On a side note - why would you not do it? The integration is a single button click as far as I remember.
 
Basically i had a cryptic email from a consultant brought in to data gather on our behalf

This is the exact feedback

Q. MDT integration was not recommended by x for task sequences
A. x’s advice was not to use MDT over SCCM but to use SCCM as the delivery mechanism. This is standard practice.

I thought i would check with you guys whether there was actually a valid reason why he is saying what he is saying (after all he is a consultant and i have taught myself sccm), because he keeps avoiding a direct answer.
 
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You've got a couple of scenarios;

  • MDT + WDS - to create lite touch deployments
  • SCCM + MDT - to create zero touch deployments with rich feature sets

Integrating MDT into SCCM gives you access to all of the benefits provided by MDT... scripts that have been produced, access to the MDT database and so on and so forth.

As a poster above pointed out, integrating MDT is as simple as installing the MDT framework and then running the integration program... takes all of a few seconds and there is no reason you would not do it.

That response you've posted from the consultant seems to read MDT integration as using MDT standalone, as opposed to integrating it with SCCM ? :confused:
 
How are you deploying at the moment? Maybe you don't need the additional features MDT brings. MDT is OK, I have it in the lab, but all the prod deployments are still native SCCM as I see no real need for MDT integration at the moment.
 
We have no MS deployment infrastructure (we use a custom netboot kernel (linux) with some scripts to pull down and customise images.
Now SCCM is looking pretty good we have a project to move everything to Windows 7 and standardizing rather than using a in-house system.

Basically its a big project and I don't want to screw it up :p

Having a play with the vanilla SCCM it seems to do most the things required to be honest
 
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