When receiving the error, “A connection to the deployment share (\mdt\DeploymentShare) could not be made.” The solution is to add a delay to a task sequence. In the deployment share , scripts folder edit the Litetouch.wsf script. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Function ValidateDeployRootWithRecovery Dim sARF Dim sNetworkErrorHint DIm iRetVal Dim sLTISuspend 'Delay wait for DHCP wscript.sleep 5000 If oUtility.ValidateConnectionEx(oEnvironment.Item("DeployRoot"), True) = Success then ValidateDeployRootWithRecovery = SUCCESS exit function End if

Sometimes MDT deployments fail and leave the disk in a dirty (failed) state, whem you choose yes and the task sequence failes try the following solution. Press F8 (opens a CMD window) Unplug any USB drives or other mass storage devices - you should end up with just the internal hard drive left (CD/DVD drives don’t count here) In the CMD window enter: DiskPart (launches the Disk Partitioning window) In the DiskPart window enter: list disk (this will show you a list of discs available)

Windows 10 deployments using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) build 8456 fail when used with the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10 and 11. The BIOS firmware type is incorrectly identified as UEFI resulting in failures when refreshing an existing computer with a new version of Windows. When this issue occurs, the smsts.log will record the following entry: UEFI: true Errors resembling the following are then recorded at the end of the process.