How to upgrade to MDT 2013 Update 2 – Cloud First

MDT 2013 Update 2 is released.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msdeployment/archive/2015/12/22/mdt-2013-update-2-now-available.aspx

From TechNet blog:

MDT 2013 Update 2 is primarily a quality release; there are no new major features. The following is a summary of the significant changes in this update:

  • Security- and cryptographic-related improvements:
    • Relaxed permissions on newly created deployment shares (still secure by default, but now also functional by default)
    • Creating deployment shares via Windows PowerShell adds same default permissions
    • Updated hash algorithm usage from SHA1 to SHA256
  • Includes the latest Configuration Manager task sequence binaries
  • Enhanced user experience for Windows 10 in-place upgrade task sequence
  • Enhanced split WIM functionality
  • Fixed OSDJoinAccount account usage in UDI scenario
  • Fixed issues with installation of Windows 10 language packs
  • Various accessibility improvements
  • Monitoring correctly displays progress for all scenarios including upgrade
  • Improvements to smsts.log verbosity

First you need to download the new MDT

Download MDT 2013 Update 2

Then you need to uninstall the old MDT from Control panel – Uninstall a program

Click Uninstall

Click Yes

Click Yes in the UAC dialog and let the uninstall complete

Now Install the new MDT 2013 Update 2

Use the x64 MSI

Click Next

Click “I accept the terms in the License Agreement”

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Yes in the UAC dialog

Click Finish

Start the Deployment Workbench

Click Yes in the UAC dialog

Now you can see that the deployment share does not match the version of the new MDT 2013 Update 2

Right click and “Upgrade Deployment share”

Click Next

Click Finish

You can also do this from PowerShell:

Import-Module “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\bin\MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit.psd1”
new-PSDrive -Name “DS002” -PSProvider “MDTProvider” -Root “d:\DeploymentPROD” -Description “MDT Deployment Share” -Force -Verbose | add-MDTPersistentDrive -Verbose

And now the deployment share are ready to use

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