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  1. MDT Retirement: What to Replace for Bare-Metal Windows Deployments

    Microsoft’s retirement of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is doing more than closing the book on an old deployment utility. It is forcing IT teams to confront a harder question: what still belongs in a modern Windows imaging strategy, and what can finally move to the cloud? The answer is...
  2. MDT Retirement 2026: Plan Your Migration to Autopilot or ConfigMgr OSD

    Microsoft’s abrupt retirement of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) has left a sizable portion of the Windows systems administration community scrambling — existing deployments will continue to run for now, but Microsoft will issue no further updates, security patches, or compatibility...
  3. MDT Retirement 2026: Migrating Windows Provisioning to Autopilot or ConfigMgr

    Microsoft’s sudden retirement of the long‑standing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) marks a decisive break with a toolset that generations of Windows administrators relied on for offline, scriptable, and repeatable operating‑system imaging and provisioning. The company’s documentation now...
  4. MDT Retirement: Migrating to Autopilot or ConfigMgr OSD

    Microsoft has given the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) an abrupt and final farewell: the veteran, free toolkit that generations of Windows administrators relied on for building and automating OS images has been officially retired with immediate effect, leaving existing deployments to limp on...