Episode 206 - PowerScripting Podcast - Michael Niehaus talks about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Michael Niehaus on the Microsoft Deployment
Toolkit! News






a reminder to update-help




Don Jones finished Learn Windows
PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches




PowerShell Plus is now free!




iPowerShell Pro now has PowerShell 3.0
support





Interview




Guest - Michael Niehaus
Links






Michael’s blog on Technet




MDT on Facebook


The Question -

Superpower: telepathy





Chatroom Buzz


RichP: ## Is MDT going to be migrated to PowerShell in the
next release?


RichP: ## Will MDT be simplifying itself by using
PowerShell workflows in the future?


lizaoreo: ## Is there a reason to integrate MDT and SCCM?
What advantages/disadvantages might be involved?


TallPau1: Now WINPE supports PowerShell, will MDT's
VBSCRIPT scripts be moved over to PowerShell at any time?


TallPau1: ##Is there anyway to configure the workbench with
PowerShell?


lizaoreo: At work now we're using a MDT2010 deployment
solution and are moving to SCCM2012, but the dude in charge is
wanting to dump all the MDT stuff and start completely from
scratch using nothing from SCCM2012, I'm trying to figure out if
that makes sense, or if it's better to keep that MDT
integration


RichP: ## Being able to package applications to deploy via
MDT is another hole in Microsoft's strategy (Orca doesn't count);
is Microsoft planning something to fill that gap?


AaronHoover: ## how do customers balance new v3 features
and a solid v2 base with remoting? code to v2 lowest common
denominator? or if v2 > v2 script, else v3 script


RichP: ## With the MDT Solution Accelerator being the
'deployment' solution, would it not be your team that releases
the 'Format-Disk' cmdlets, etc?


TallPau1: ##will the PowerShell help for MDT be updated?
not many examples