A session was delivered in September 2019 on Windows 10 Deployment (Lite touch) using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. The session was attended by 23-25 participants who were IT Professionals and Deployment Engineers. The session went on for 4 hours with end to end demo on preparing reference machine, capturing image, installing MDT, and deploying the image to target computer.
Similar sessions are planned in the future targeting the Windows 7 Endo of Support
This article is the first part of a series of articles on “How to deploy Windows 10 Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit”.
Active Directory is considered as one of the most critical workload in a network. It is responsible for authentication, authorization, auditing, policies, security etc. It’s a central repository of Objects as such as identity and other objects within a network. As and when a new server application is deployed within a Microsoft network such as Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, System Center, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, etc. the AD DS schema is extended to accompany server objects.
Lets see how to install AD DS on Windows Server 2019 which is the latest Microsoft Windows Server Operating System
Click on the Windows Server 2019 Server Manager and click Add roles and features
On the before you begin page, click next
On the select installation type window, select Role-based or feature based installation and click next
On the server selection window, select the local server and click next
On the server roles window, select the Active Directory Domain Services Role; and you will be prompted to ad the relevant supporting features
Click Add Features and Click next
Click Next
Review the AD DS page, if you have to synch with Azure AD, you can configure here. If not click Next
Review Confirmation and Click yes to automatically restart and click Install
Review the results and click the link to promote it as a domain controller
Provide the root domain name in the new forest and click next
Select the forest functional level, DNS if its not installed before and the DSRM password and click next
Click OK for the DNS option and click next
NetBios name populates automatically and click next
Review the paths and click next
Review options and click next
Pre-requisites will be checked. review and click install
Upon successful installation you will see the installed roles in the Server Manager
Windows 10 Task Preview has been evolving ever since it was included in Windows 10. Task View is the feature where multiple desktops can be created and view all the historical files and folders that were used historically in a timeline.
Access Task View by clicking the below icon or Windows + Tab
Task view opens
Another feature is that when you right click on a historical program, file or folder in task view, you get an option to move to another desktop which has been created.
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