The nifty Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 tool is out of beta and available for download from Microsoft. And it's free!
New features include support for upgrading from previous versions, integration with security and compliance templates generated by Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) version 2, the ability to run Windows PowerShell scripts as part of a deployment, partion creation during a deployment for BitLocker Drive Encryption deployment and support, automatic configuration of participation in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) and in Windows Error Reporting (WER), guidance to use of Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) for database needs within MD, and many other small enhancements and bug fixes.
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