Posted by: kurtsh | November 2, 2013

RELEASE: Powershell Development Toolkit 2.5

Powershell2The PowerShell Deployment Toolkit (PDT) is a set of scripts and knowledge for automated deployment of System Center 2012 SP1/R2, including SQL and all prerequisites, and all automatable post-setup integration.  See Building Cloud blog Deployment track for details.

PowerShell Deployment Toolkit version 2.5 has now been posted to the TechNet Gallery here.  Version 2.5 adds a number of enhancements:

  • Deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Preview.
  • Creation of Active Directory during VM creation for end to end isolated environment creation.
  • Static ports for SQL Server named instances to remove requirement for default instances for several components.
  • Validation of components that require full server installations and won’t run on server core.
  • Ability for VMCreator to use either 7-Zip or WinRAR instead of just WinRAR.
  • Ability to specify network adapter identifier during VM creation to allow Windows Server 2008 R2 and non-English OS installation.
  • Ability to specify timezone during VM creation.

The most recent release is available here:

For more information about it’s usage, go to:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/08/30/deployment-using-pdt-for-end-to-end-deployment-including-active-directory.aspx

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