Microsoft PowerShell Deployment Toolkit - Automatically deploy System Center 2012
Have you ever wanted to automatically deploy the entire System Center 2012 suite in a couple of hours? If so, this is what you need. :)
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Internally at Microsoft, with every milestone during development – CTP, Beta, RC, RTM – we rebuild the SCDemo environment to allow our field to learn the new capabilities we are delivering. PDT is the automation we use to do those rebuilds very quickly – usually in 2-4 hours. Yes, just 2-4 hours to deploy all of System Center including SQL and all prerequisites in a highly available configuration including all of the automatable post-setup integration. We want to provide you with the same efficiency.
It is going to take a whole series of posts to explain all of the capabilities of PDT, so I’ll start in this post with a simple overview and sample deployment. PDT requires that the servers that System Center will be deployed to are already running, members of an Active Directory domain, and you have administrator permissions to those servers. They can be physical or virtual, and can even be on any virtualization platform – PDT doesn’t care. They just need to be running Windows Server – and in most cases, that can be either Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2. The only exceptions to this are that the server for the Virtual Machine Manager Management server must be Windows Server 2012, and the server for the Service Manager SharePoint Web Parts server must be Windows Server 2008 R2. You will also need all the software to be used in the deployment – System Center components, SQL Server, and prerequisite software – downloaded and available in a specific folder structure.
