The list of “persistent shares” in the MDT Litetouch console is stored in the
local user’s profile. So yes, if you login to a different account, then the
list of shares in the console will be different, simply re-add them in to the
console and that account will be good to go.
As for sharing… My recommendation is to create multiple Litetouch shares,
perhaps breaking them down into production vs test. Additionally, if you have
multiple users adding in content, then you can break down the test shares even
further, perhaps:
\\server\deploymentshare_bob$
<file://server/deploymentshare_bob$>
\\Server\deploymentshare_sue$
<file://Server/deploymentshare_sue$>
You can easily open up multiple shares in the local MDT console and copy and
paste objects between them. Bob and Sue can spend time adding
applications/drivers/TaskSequences to their test shares, and then Mike can copy
the components, when ready, to the master share.
-k
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Marable, Mike
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 9:56 AM
To: mdtosd@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Multiple Users of Deployment Workbench
With Windows Server you get 2 simultaneous connections (2 RDP or 1 RDP + 1
console). Since you just had the one local account before you didn’t run into
this.
Yes, you just need to “Open Deployment Share” in the MDT workbench to access
your share. From that point on it should appear in your MDT console.
No, you can have multiple accounts accessing the share and it won’t hurt
anything.
If you’re making changes at the same time you could run into issues. But
nothing different than if you had multiple users attempting to modify the same
file on the network. I don’t know if MDT has the ability to lock an object
when it is being modified. Since it’s all simple XML files and not a database
(like SCCM) I imagine that you can have multiple users modifying the same task
sequence at the same time. As long as your team communicates with each other
then it shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
Mike
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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Wilcox, Kyle
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 11:07 AM
To: mdtosd@lists.myitforum.com <mailto:mdtosd@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [MDT-OSD] Multiple Users of Deployment Workbench
Hi All,
We just joined our MDT server to the domain for the first time today.
Previously, we all just logged in with the same local account. That meant only
one person could be working on it at one time. If I used RDP to access it, the
other guy would get kicked out.
Now that we are on the domain, I notice that I can be logged into the server
with both the local account and my domain account at the same time. Since my
domain account is a new user, the deployment shares don't show up in the
Deployment Workbench for me, but I assume I just need to click "Open Deployment
Share" and it will let me select the existing ones.
Does it matter if multiple domain accounts access the same deployment share,
but not simultaneously?
Does it matter if multiple domain accounts are logged in and making changes to
the deployment workbench at the same time?
Would it be better to just have a domain account dedicated to managing MDT and
avoid any issues?
--
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