Start the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Workbench

1. Open Deployment Workbench
2. Right Click Deployment Shares
3. Click New Deployment Share
4. Change Deployment Share Path to match your environment – in my case I change to D:\DeploymentShare
5. Click Next
6. Change the share name or leave as is
7. Click Next
8. Change Deployment share description or leave as is
9. Click Next
10. Remove all the checks – we will configure these at a later point (CustomSettings.ini)
11. Click Next
12. Review details
13. Click Next
14. Click Close

Now we have the a deployment share to work from – Now we need some data

Let’s start by importing Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview

If you haven’t already downloaded the iso – get it though the Windows Insider Program (http://windows.microsoft.com/da-dk/windows/preview-iso)

1. Expand Deployment Shares
2. Expand the newly created MDT Deployment Share
3. Right click Operating Systems
4. Click Import Operating System
5. Mark Full set of source Files
6. Click Next
7. Browse to the content of the ISO downloaded from the Windows Insider Program – I mounted the ISO onto my MDT VM, you could also just extract the content and move it to a reachable location UNC or otherwise.
8. Click Next
9. Destination Name will show up as Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 – change this to Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview x64
10. Click Next
11. Review the details
12. Click Next
13. Click Finish
    1. The imported operating system will name appear in Operating Systems with the name Windows 8.1 Enterprise in Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview x64 Install.wim

Now let’s go ahead and create Task Sequence to install this nice vanilla version of Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview

1. Right Click Task Sequences
2. Click New Task Sequence
3. Type in an ID for your new install task sequence – I will Type IW10ETPX64, could be anything
4. Type Task sequence name – I will type Install Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview x64
5. Maybe we even type a comment – I will type todays date, this field is not mandatory
6. Click Next
7. Choose Standard Client Task Sequence
8. Click Next
9. Choose the newly import Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview x64 Install.wim
10. Click Next
11. We could specify the MAK Key that we got from the Windows Insider Program, but it’s not required
12. Click Next
13. Type in Full Name, Organization Name and homepage
14. Click Next
15. Type a local administrator password
16. Click Next
17. Review the details
18. Click Next
19. Click Finish

So now we got the task sequence ready – so what’s next?

Let’s start the creation of the needed boot images (or either ISO or PXE boot)

1. Right click the Deployment Share
2. Click Update Deployment Share
3. Click Next
4. Click Next
5. Click Finish

Browse to your Deployment Share in Windows Explorer

Locate the boot folder – We now have the newly generated boot files. Wim files if we want to PXE boot using Windows Deployment Services, or ISO if we want to use a Boot CD.

I’m going to copy the LiteTouchPE_x64.iso to my Hyper-V host, so I can test boot a VM.
Let’s boot and see what happens

1. Insert the boot media into your VM or test computer (keep in mind we still haven’t added any drivers
2. Boot on the media

We are now being presented with the Deployment Wizard Welcome screen

If we to automate or just plain and simple skip this window

• Add SkipBDDWelcome=Yes to bootstrap.ini

1. Click Run the Deployment Wizard to install a new Operating System
2. We are now being prompted for Network credentials to access the share
   1. Type in valid user credentials
   2. This can be automated or skipped with
      1. UserID, UserDomain and UserPassword in Bootstrap.ini
3. Click OK

Now we are connect to the deployment share – all changes needed from heron out is done within the task sequecen, CustomSettings.ini or within the Deployment Share

1. Choose your Task Sequence – Install Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview x64
   1. This can be automated with the SkipTaskSequence=Yes & TaskSeuqneceID=IW10ETPX64 (ID of your task seuqecen) – the changes is needed in CustomSettings.ini
2. Click Next
3. Type in a computer name
   1. Of course we can automate this as well… – CustomSettings.ini
4. Type in Domain or Workgroup information
5. Click Next
6. Choose whether or not to move data and settings from previous versions of Windows
7. Click Next
8. Choose to restore user data – we don’t in this case
9. Click Next
10. Choose your locale and time preferences
    1. Again – we ca automate this in…… CustomS……s.ini
11. Click Next
12. Review the details
13. Click Begin

The computer is now being installed with the Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview

Automating the process will be covered in another post, as well as adding applications and customizing J