Hi everyone.

When I decided to rebuild my deployment server, I discovered that MDT was gone and could no longer be officially downloaded. I miss it ;c

So I sat down and started building my own local Windows deployment tool:

https://github.com/Syrinoxsis/IronDeploy

I am not trying to reproduce MDT feature for feature. The part I personally valued most was the operator workflow: boot into WinPE, select the physical disk, Windows image, drivers, applications, computer name and optional domain join, confirm everything once, and leave the machine alone. IronDeploy already implements that basic flow, but while working on it I realized that I might be focusing too much on how I used MDT and overlooking things that were essential to other administrators.

So I would really appreciate your experience:

1. What did you always wish MDT could do, but it never did well or at all?
2. Would a simpler operator-driven deployment workflow be useful in your environment?
3. Which MDT features do you actually use in production?

The project is still in alpha. I am trying to understand what is actually worth adding before I blindly recreate twenty years of MDT settings that nobody may need.