How to use MDT without ADK & MDT installed

Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) as portable application allows to simplify the OS deployment process in branch offices. In this post you will also learn how to create and update a Deployment Share for the portable MDT.

In our organization we manage OS images centrally and we don’t want the local IT departments to modify our master images. To allow the local support staff to add specific applications to our images, we send them a portable version of the MDT. This way, they don’t have to install the toolkit which would be too complicated for the local support staff.