Manage Linked Deployment Shares

Linked deployment shares in MDT allow you to provide a logical connection between two deployment shares: a source and a target deployment share. A selection profile determines the items to be linked. When creating the link between the deployment shares, you can choose whether to merge or replace content in the target deployment share.

Using linked deployment shares, you can easily replicate an entire deployment share or portions of a deployment share to another deployment share. In this way, you can make changes to one deployment share, and then easily update other deployment shares based on the selection profiles you chose when creating the linked deployment shares.

Manage linked deployment shares by performing the following tasks in the Deployment Workbench:

· Create a new linked deployment share as described in Create a New Linked Deployment Share in the Deployment Workbench.

· Modify an existing linked deployment share as described in Modify an Existing Linked Deployment Share in the Deployment Workbench.

· Copy a linked deployment share as described in Copy a Linked Deployment Share in the Deployment Workbench.

· Move a linked deployment share as described in Move a Linked Deployment Share in the Deployment Workbench.

· Rename a linked deployment share as described in Rename a Linked Deployment Share in the Deployment Workbench.

· Delete a linked deployment share as described in Delete a Linked Deployment Share from the Deployment Workbench.

· Replicate linked deployment shares as described in Replicate Linked Deployment Shares in the Deployment Workbench.

In addtion to managing linked deployement shares in the Deployment Workbench, you can manage linked deployment shares using the MDT Windows PowerShell cmdlets. For more information on managing linked deployment shares using the MDT Windows PowerShell cmdlets, see the following sections beneath the section, MDT Windows PowerShell Cmdlets, in the MDT document Toolkit Reference:

· Update-MDTLinkedDS

· Get-MDTDeploymentShareStatistics