Why is there no MDT Support for Windows 11?

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Why is there no MDT Support for Windows 11?

Eric Avelar 25 Microsoft Employee

Curious to know why Microsoft has decided to not support Windows 11 with MDT? I know of many organizations that leverage MDT for their offline (isolated/closed network) environments. Especially with Long Term Servicing Channel version of Windows. Is there official guidance for a replacement for this product moving forward? I know the focus is cloud but what about those organizations that are not in the cloud and closed to the internet?

J-Robledo 0 Reputation points

2024-07-10T18:13:46.0933333+00:00

This is confusing I can't do configmgr or Intune for OA 3.0 tool on the factory floor. Also, we can't do WinPE and ADK because No one knows how to do this, and it will take a lot of time to get them up to speed.
Paul Gotch 0 Reputation points

2024-08-26T14:08:33.52+00:00

I suspect this comment will get moderated away but the person who was keeping MDT alive left MS and MS no longer want to allow a local provisioning scenario since they want everyone using and paying for Autopilot.

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J-Robledo 0 Reputation points

2024-07-10T18:13:46.0933333+00:00

This is confusing I can't do configmgr or Intune for OA 3.0 tool on the factory floor. Also, we can't do WinPE and ADK because No one knows how to do this, and it will take a lot of time to get them up to speed.
Paul Gotch 0 Reputation points

2024-08-26T14:08:33.52+00:00

I suspect this comment will get moderated away but the person who was keeping MDT alive left MS and MS no longer want to allow a local provisioning scenario since they want everyone using and paying for Autopilot.

Answer 1

Heidler, Stefan 20

Dear Eric

Please feel free to contact me. While MDT does officially not support Windows 11 we do use MDT to deploy Windows 10/11 and Servers 2012/2016/2019 within the same Tasksequence.

I do not care if Microsoft does support it - as I know how to deal with.

We even install our clients via a small self-updating USB pen drive over Wireless LAN as most of the new models do not have any LAN Ports built in.

After the OS installation we install the SW deployment agent like ManageOne, OPSI or SCCM to handover the further installation of software packages.

The client will end up in an on Premise AD or if you prefer in the Login Screen for Azure AD Join - selectable via Menu.

Did even integrate VNC-Agent do give Support during the installation.

Kind regards

Stefan

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Darren Bowring 0 Reputation points

2024-03-13T11:53:21.0533333+00:00

Stefan

Can you provide some detail on how you setup "Small USB stick to pull MDT image over the Wireless and did you integrate VNC into WIN PE please?
Heidler, Stefan 20 Reputation points

2024-03-13T12:09:53.2866667+00:00
Dear Darren

You "just" need to replace the Wim image which is used to create the boot wim file with the one from winre which can be found install the install.wim

Regarding VNC integration. In unattend.xml you need to add an additional line:

<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> <Description>Lite Touch PE</Description> <Order>1</Order> <Path>cmd.exe /c X:\Deploy\Tools\VNC\install.cmd</Path> </RunSynchronousCommand>

And of course you need to add this additional files to you boot file - additional files can be added in the properties of your MDT.

install.cmd should look like this

@echo off %WINDIR%\System32\wpeutil.exe DisableFirewall mkdir %SystemDrive%\VNC %windir%\regedit.exe -s "%~dp0Settings.reg" xcopy %~dp0*.* %SystemDrive%\VNC /cherky %SYSTEMDRIVE%\VNC\tvnserver.exe -install -silent %SYSTEMDRIVE%\VNC\tvnserver.exe -start -silent

Content of the VNC folder

The Settings.reg does have all settings for the VNC agent - you need to export it after installation and set all settings on an demo client, including the password.

That's it - more or less...

Kind regards

Stefan
Cornelius Gomes 0 Reputation points

2025-01-02T17:20:06.6366667+00:00

Hi Stefan, how do I contact you? CG
Vito Skolan 0 Reputation points

2025-03-05T16:03:23.3266667+00:00

Do you still offer this tool? I couldn't find it online.
Zhao, Andy 0 Reputation points

2025-03-26T09:37:21.02+00:00

hi ,stefan,

can you share the toosl to me,It's free or not
Heidler, Stefan 20 Reputation points

2025-03-26T09:45:19.98+00:00

Which tools? They are all for free and existing
Zhao, Andy 0 Reputation points

2025-03-26T10:28:47.75+00:00

this tools and how to use it？
Heidler, Stefan 20 Reputation points

2025-03-26T10:30:43.4133333+00:00

Oh that's written by my own... Sorry not for sharing ;-)
Bruce Zhang 26 Reputation points

2025-04-23T03:17:54.7533333+00:00
Hi Stefan,

How much will it cost for using your tool? do you have any more documentation about it? or any demo on it?

Bruce

Answer 2

KS 15

Microsoft Configuration Manager/Intune is VERY expensive and does not support shared systems.

Answer 3

Simon Ren-MSFT 40,411 Microsoft External Staff

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

1,Per the official document, MDT does not support deployment of Windows 11. Microsoft recommends using alternative deployment solutions such as Microsoft Configuration Manager (MECM) as it is more flexible and provide a richer experience for deploying Windows images.

Refer to:

MDT Supported platforms

Support for Windows 11 in Configuration Manager

2,Microsoft also suggests alternative solutions for endpoint management for those that cannot yet use a cloud-only management approach. These include deploying Configuration Manager clients over the internet using a cloud management gateway (CMG), attaching your existing Configuration Management estate to the cloud with tenant attach, or using co-management to manage devices concurrently using both Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune.

Refer to:

Cloud management gateway overview

Thanks for your time. Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Simon

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Simon Ren-MSFT 40,411 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-07-19T09:40:56.0633333+00:00

Hi,

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Thanks for your time.

Best regards,

Simon
Ozmeister 5 Reputation points

2023-09-14T10:18:13.03+00:00

Just my two cents, due to some specific circumstances we would need 10 individual CM environments as opposed to one MDT install we have now. No cloud, no internet is possible. So, CM will not be the solution for us. Guidance for replacing MDT in offline/isolated use case with MS products would be greatly appreciated. I don't think we're alone in this situation. Also, the banana for scale: we run about 2000-2500 OS installs every year.
Ivan Braschuk 10 Reputation points

2023-09-14T13:57:26.8733333+00:00

In the real world there still is a need to deploy with a product such as MDT. As someone who has been using MDT for a good while .... it just works. This is a very narrow minded approach in my opinion.
Daniel 26 Reputation points

2024-06-18T11:38:04.93+00:00

This comment does not make any sense. Why should one use cloud if you just want to install some clients locally. Microsoft is getting worse and worse.
Scott Milne 0 Reputation points

2024-11-18T20:47:37.5866667+00:00

The tools you list are not useful at all for scenarios where the machines will not be domain joined. Terrible (typical) useless answer from MSFT.

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