What's going on, guys? It is Bernardo. And today is all about upgrading your MDT Windows Server
2019 to Windows Server 2022. I've always done videos of how to upgrade MDT,
but never the operating system that MDT is actually being hosted into.
So let's get right into it. All right, so I actually have an MDT server at my Hyper-V
infrastructure. On the desktop, I'm going to right click on the start menu and
I'm going to click on Run and I'm going to type in WinVer and hit.
Okay. I'm showing you guys that I am running Windows Server 2019
and at the end of the video I am going to be running 2022. I also open up my workbench
and I'm running the latest and greatest MDT version, which is 8456.
Microsoft has not updated this version since, I think, 2019. It's been a while,
I believe a little longer, but this is what I'm running within my current environment.
So the first thing that I like to do is locate your deployment share and back it up, okay.
For this video, I actually created a folder on the desktop called BTNHD
DS for deployment share backup and I just made a copy of it on the desktop.
You could make a copy of it on the desktop or you can make a copy within a network.
Share is up to you depending on the size of your deployment share. For
me it was around 13 gigs. Yours is probably a little bigger than mine's
because you've been using it for your production environment. Within my lab I have.
It was 13 gig. It's going to take some time for it to be backed up.
So once that's backed up, the next thing that we need to do is, well, what I did was I located the
server 2022 ISO file and I mounted that image within my virtual server, my MDT server.
So once I did that, I opened up the Windows Explorer. It mounted on the D drive. I right
clicked on it and I picked install or run program from your media and it's
going to start preparing. Once it finished preparing you're going to get this window.
So we're going to click next here. It's going to start checking for updates.
Once that's done is going to, you know, continue trying to set up for the installation and again,
is checking your PC to make sure, you know, you're able to upgrade to 2022
and eventually you're going to get this window to select your image.
Now for this video, I picked the Windows Server 2022 standard desktop experience,
which is the same version, what I'm running on 2019, you know, the standard desktop experience.
I want the same thing. So I clicked on next here, accept the license and terms
and you have two options I left the default as keep files, settings and apps
and then click next here. It's going to start checking for updates. It's going to start
preparing to install and eventually it's going to give you a confirmation that it is ready to
install, which is a good thing. So we are going to click install.
Everything should turn blue, it's going to state installing Windows Server
and a bunch of reboots are going to happen. So once it restarts,
it's going to give you this option here. Don't press any keys to boot into the CD.
That's a no no. Just let it happen.
Let it bypass. And eventually it's going to take you here with a percentage.
It's going to restart again. And once it restarts again, it takes you to this. Once you get to this
point right here, it's really good because this is really close to getting into the desktop part and
eventually it's going to apply in your computer settings reboot
and it should take you to the control-alt-delete window. So do a control-alt-delete and log into
your machine again. This machine was part of a domain environment, so I logged into
my MDT using a domain account and the desktop looks different and from here I'm
going to right click on Start Menu,
click on Run and then type in WinVer and hit okay. And I'm running Windows Server 2022,
which is awesome. It upgraded from 2019 to 2022, which is what I wanted.
But now we need to make sure our MDT environment is up and running, so open up your workbench.
And the first thing that I like to do is just right click on the primary deployment
share node and then pick update deployment share. You have two options. You can either
optimize the boot image to, you know, to update it, or you could do a completely regenerate
boot image is really up to do. I feel like if you do completely regenerate the boot images,
once you upgrade the server side, it should give you no problems,
right? For me, that's why I picked that. I picked next.
Next here I started doing the cleanup and processing, recreating the boot images.
And once it's done, you're going to get this confirmation and just click on finish now because
I'm running WDS Windows Deployment Services within my environment. This is what I use.
To pixie xoot and push out the boot image to start, you know, imaging process. I notice on my
2020 my WDS was, you know, down. So I actually had to select a node, right click on it and then go
all tasks and then start the process, start the services once the services were done.
What I did was I went inside boot images. I updated my 64 and 86 bit boot image, I restarted
my WDS server, and I tested my MDT server, which at the end of the video I'm going to show you guys
a quick video of this environment and actually testing it out with a current task sequence, task
sequence within my MDT that I have to deploy a successful operating system. And that's it guys,
hopefully you guys enjoy this video and I catch you guys on the next one peace out.