The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus

About this episode

Richard talks to MDT creator Michael Niehaus about the life and death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and its implications for managing operating system images.

What does the world look like after Microsoft Deployment Toolkit? Richard talks to MDT creator Michael Niehaus about the life and death of MDT. Michael talks about his early days at Microsoft, when he created a better way to manage operating system images so you can build and rebuild Windows PCs for your organization. But MDT had been in maintenance since 2013, without specific support for Windows 11. And now, some security concerns have ended support entirely. So what happens next? Michael offers fixes to keep MDT safe to use, and some alternatives if you want to keep managing your own images!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Michael Niehaus

Topics covered

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
• operating system images
• Windows PCs
• security concerns
• image management

Keywords

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
• MDT
• Windows 11
• image management
• security concerns
• operating system images

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Windows 11

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