[mdt] MDT 2013 Update 2 Now Available

[Arthur]

Download (Direct Links: x64, x86)

 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msdeployment/archive/2015/12/22/mdt-2013-update-2-now-available.aspx

 

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update 2 (6.3.8330) is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This update requires the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10, available on the Microsoft Hardware Dev Center. (Note that there are known issues with the v1511 release of the Windows 10 ADK and System Center Configuration Manager; these issues do not directly affect MDT although may still impact ZTI or UDI scenarios).

 

MDT 2013 Update 2 is primarily a quality release; there are no new major features. The following is a summary of the significant changes in this update:

 

Security- and cryptographic-related improvements:

• Relaxed permissions on newly created deployment shares (still secure by default, but now also functional by default)
  
• Creating deployment shares via Windows PowerShell adds same default permissions
  
• Updated hash algorithm usage from SHA1 to SHA256
  

[*]Includes the latest Configuration Manager task sequence binaries

[*]Enhanced user experience for Windows 10 in-place upgrade task sequence

[*]Enhanced split WIM functionality

[*]Fixed OSDJoinAccount account usage in UDI scenario

[*]Fixed issues with installation of Windows 10 language packs

[*]Various accessibility improvements

[*]Monitoring correctly displays progress for all scenarios including upgrade

[*]Improvements to smsts.log verbosity

[*]There are no other new release notes or significant known issues. See the previous post for more information as much of it is still applicable (other than the fix list above).

[garethEds]

Has this been pulled? Cannot find the download anywhere. Page not available most of the time when navigating from the blog.

 

Ohhhh it's back now. Strange.

Edited January 13, 2016 by garethedmondson

[Jawloms]

All working fine for me using @Arthur link provided.

[DJ-1701]

Has this been pulled? Cannot find the download anywhere. Page not available most of the time when navigating from the blog.

 

The hyperlinks @Arthur provided load fine for me, and the hyperlink on the blog in the first sentence. It states on the download page 'Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update 2' and provides me the links.

[garethEds]

Yip - not sure what I must have been doing wrong.

 

GJE

[Arthur]

For those still using Windows 7...

 

Back to Basics - Building a Windows 7 SP1 Reference Image using MDT 2013 Update 2

[garethEds]

I notice that they've left the Suspend task out of the instructions. I'm sure that was in the original article. Or maybe it was the book.

 

GJE