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Deployment–PDT 2.65.2620 is now available on the TechNet Gallery

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In my last post I mentioned that PDT was being maintained by a group inside Microsoft that actively use the tool.  Well, that team have been hard at work and have provided and update which is now available on the TechNet Gallery here.  A huge thanks to that team for their work on this!

The following updates and enhancements are included in this release:

Updated the following supported application versions:

  • SQL 2012 SP2 CU1
  • WAP UR4
  • WAP Websites v2 UR4
  • Updated prerequisites to latest versions

Downloader

  • Support for new WebPI 5.0
  • Support for multiple versions of a file during validation checking
  • Support for using slipstream SQL 2012 SP2 media
  • Support for PeaZip for extraction
  • Better error handling and dealing with bad URL links
  • Support for MSI extraction
  • Fix for unblocking downloaded files
  • More process status information during execution
  • New cmdline option -Getlatest, forces an update of all the files in the Installer directory. Can be combined with –deploymentonly
  • Added Get-Help information to the source

VMCreator

  • Creates VMSwitch if doesn’t exist on the Hyper-V host (Internal and Private switches only)
  • New cmdline switch for logging -EnableLogging. This switch enables a log to be created of the virtual machine creation process
  • New cmdline switch for MAXStage.  This parameter allows you to configure how much of the deployment that VMCreator will complete. Valid options are: 1Admin, 2ServerFeatures, 3SQLClusters, 4SQL, 5Prereqs, 6Roles, 7Integration. Each stage includes the actions of the previous stage
  • Better error handling
  • Better execution status information
  • Starts virtual machine if created when AD is already complete for greenfield deployments
  • Fix for duplicate DomainAccountList values
  • Fix for Firewall Rules
  • Added Get-Help information

Installer

  • Added a new validation type for creating SQL Clusters
  • Added Get-Help information
  • Added new Skip Validation option for Media

Workflow

  • Modified the validation approach for all SQL cluster creation to improve validation success
  • Updated WAP installation routines to deal with UR4 changes
  • Updated management pack information
  • Updated SQL information
  • Updated WAP and WAP Websites information
  • Updated WebPI information
  • Added basic support for SQL 2014 for standalone DB servers

Variable Updates

  • Support for ServerAdminGroup – group that is added to local administrators in each VM for that role
  • Support for AGMEMBERS – group membership variables for each role
  • New PrimaryDC support – defines the primary DC to use for AD actions
  • New VirtualSwitchType – defines the switch type INTERNAL or PRIVATE for automatically creating the switch if it does not exist on the Hyper-V Host
  • <DOMAIN> <EXISTING> - defines if the domain exists already TRUE or not FALSE – you no longer have to delete the domain section for the greenfield/non-greenfield deployments

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Rob please pass on the thanks to the team this is a huge update.

    Thanks Davey
  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Looking over the variable.xml, it looks like this version does not deploy Configuration Manager?
  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hello Rob,
    First of all thanks very much for your huge effort on PDT deployment.

    Please could you be more specific about "Support for AGMEMBERS – group membership variables for each role".

    Checking variable.xml, now there are a lot of entry like this:



    Its meaning is that all those service accounts will be member of SystemCenter2012R2VirtualMachineManagerAdminGroup ?

    Thanks in advance

    Giovanni
  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2014
    I'm looking for variable.xml to deploy these VMs using pdt:
    - clustered sql server 2012 r2 for (system center configuration manager, wsus, symantec endpoint, application database)
    - system center configuration manager 2012 r2
    - wsus
    - Management and Jump Server
    - Application Catalogue/Reporting Services
    VMs Data disks are stored on a nas and os disk on the server. i'm running server 2012 r2 datacenter
    could someone help
    thank htk
  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2015
    Hello Rob,
    First of all thanks very much for your huge effort on PDT deployment.

    Please could you be more specific about "Support for AGMEMBERS – group membership variables for each role".

    Checking variable.xml, now there are a lot of entry like this:



    Its meaning is that all those service accounts will be member of SystemCenter2012R2VirtualMachineManagerAdminGroup ?

    Thanks in advance

    Giovanni