hey guys welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today is all about
upgrading your MDT 8450 to MDT 8456 so let's get started now I like testing out
my MDT stuff within VMware Workstation so the first thing that I'm going to do and
hopefully this is what you are going to do is I'm going to take a snapshot so
within my VMware Workstation I'm gonna right click on that tab go to snapshot
and take a snapshot and just click on take a snapshot alright done the reason
why I'm doing this is because in case 8456 corrupts something I'm always able to
go back in time to a stable environment and continue deploying now if you're not
able to take snapshots like I'm doing the other way would be to back up your
entire deployment share before you push out the 8456 upgrade if you're if
you have an MDT server that's a physical server you could back it up like Windows
Backup or whatever backup utility you are using at your infrastructure okay
first things first I want to show you guys that within my deployment workbench
if you click on help and you go to about you're going to see that my current
build is 6.3.8450.1000 and that's going to change right so first
things first I have a folder within my desktop and on the desktop it's called v
as in victor or version 8456 inside that folder I have three things your ADK
setup your ADK WinPE setup and your Microsoft deployment toolkit 64 now
these three files are very important because one you have to make sure that you
have upgraded the latest and greatest ADK within your server that supports
Windows 10 1809 ok I think I did a video for you guys already so check that out
on the channel now the only thing that I need inside this folder is in the
Microsoft deployment toolkit 64 I'm going to right click on it click on
install you're gonna get the nice little wizard click on next accept the
licensing terms click on next next if you want
to join the customer experience improvement program go for it
I'm not going to do it so I left it as I don't want to join the program at this
time click on next install it's going to start removing all the files and you're
done it's pretty seamless click on finish next thing we need to do
is click on start locate your deployment workbench open it up launch it up now
when you expand your deployment share node you're going to see that your
primary MDT node has an exclamation point when you select that you're gonna
see this unable to restore the deployment share do not freak out ok
please don't freak out just right click on it and pick upgrade deployment share
you're going to get a nice little upgrade deployment share wizard click on
next from here this process takes between five to ten minutes it really
depends on how much information you have within your MDT server it depends on
applications drivers task sequence operating systems so this process will
take some time eventually when everything is done
you're going to get this that's a good thing click on finish and now that
exclamation point within your MDT share is gone now you're able to expand it and
you should see or your nodes awesome now for me I like to right-click on my
primary node and just do an update deployment share you don't really need
to do this but this is just me being paranoid you're gonna get the update
deployment share wizard again I'm gonna click on next and next is gonna do its
copying with the wind' file and processing whatever it needs to do and
once everything is completed you're done and that's it guys that is how you
upgrade your current MDT 8450 hopefully you got 8450 up and running and if you
want to upgrade it to MDT 8456 is pretty seamless don't freak out if you
see that exclamation point just right-click on it upgrade the deployment
share and you're good to go but before you push out the upgrade if you're using
a virtual machine for your MDT server take a snapshot if you not back up the
entire deployment share back this up ok take it to another location back it up
and then upgrade if something happens you are able to reinstall 8450 and then
point it to that deployment share you know the one that you just copied and
pasted somewhere so hopefully you guys enjoy don't forget
about hitting that like button and I catch you guys on the next one peace out