You can update deployment shares using the Update-MDTDeploymentShare cmdlet and the MDTProvider Windows PowerShell provider. Updating a deployment share creates the Windows PE boot images (WIM and International Organization for Standardization [ISO] files) necessary to start LTI deployment. You can perform the same process using the Deployment Workbench, as described in Update a Deployment Share in the Deployment Workbench.

To update a deployment share using Windows PowerShell

1.   Load the MDT Windows PowerShell snap-in as described in Loading the MDT Windows PowerShell Snap-In.

2.   Ensure that the MDT deployments that share Windows PowerShell drives are restored using the Restore-MDTPersistentDrive cmdlet, as shown in the following example:

Restore-MDTPersistentDrive -Verbose

Note   If the MDT deployments that share Windows PowerShell drives are already restored, you will receive a warning message indicating that the cmdlet is unable to restore the drive.

3.   Verify that the MDT deployments that share Windows PowerShell drives are restored properly using the Get-PSDrive cmdlet, as follows:

Get-PSDrive -PSProvider Microsoft.BDD.PSSnapIn\MDTProvider

The list of Windows PowerShell drives provided using the MDTProvider are listed.

4.   Update the deployment share using the Update-MDTDeploymentShare cmdlet, as shown in the following example:

Update-MDTDeploymentShare -Path "DS002:" -Force

In this example, DS002: is the name of a Windows PowerShell drive returned in step 3.

Note   Updating the deployment share can take a long time. The progress of the cmdlet is shown at the top of the Windows PowerShell console.

The cmdlet returns with no output if the update is successful.

Related Topics

Managing MDT Using Windows PowerShell