MDT 2013 on windows server in Cloud

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2020-10-24T14:55:06.607+00:00

Hello, I have been using MDT for a few years now and been asked a question.
The company i work for want to move all servers to the cloud, Currently the server is on-site.
But anyone with any experience can answer wether the MDT setup will work on a server in the cloud?
Thanks

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  1. Gary Blok 1,736 Reputation points
    2020-10-25T05:49:10.523+00:00

    Sure, it's a Windows Server that runs MDT. As long as whatever device you're trying to deploy the OS to has a network connection to the MDT server, it would work.

    As long as you're not thinking you'd have your MDT server up in the cloud, but you'd be trying to image Workstations on Prem, that's just a bad idea, in my opinion.

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  2. Aravinth Mathan 321 Reputation points
    2020-10-25T18:26:53.627+00:00
  3. Jason Sandys 31,151 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-10-26T02:26:30.607+00:00

    MDT is just a files share. Nothing more. Full stop. Thus, as long as the clients can connect to it, MDT will work. Don't expect to PXE boot though.

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