How best to set up MDT developement and production?

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Published on 2010-05-14T10:51:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 10:54 UTC
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What's your MDT 2010 test and prod setup? What do you consider best practice?

Is it best to use linked deployment shares, and replicate from development to production when testing is complete? What about backing out, if something breaks?

Does anyone run MDT shares in DFS, or is there no support in the WinPE boot image for DFS shares?

Or what about moving the production share name from one deployment share to another, as you add and test more OS versions, drivers, attributes, etc?

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