Native VHD Boot deployments from SCCM 2012 R2

Question

Hi,
Is anyone able to confirm if SCCM 2012 R2 supports deploying a customized Windows 7 Enterprise WIM to VHD for native boot deployments. ?
MDT 2013 seems to have support for this via the Deploy to VHD Client Task Sequence, however I have not found a direct method of achieving this from
the SCCM console and Operating system Task Sequences.
Thanks
Matt.

Answer 1

I'm actually having a crack at doing this (deploying Native-VHD Windows Installs) using SCCM's OSD without MDT 2013 Task Sequences.
I made a diskpart script which almost worked, it created the VHD, but OSD still whacked everything in the Physical NTFS volume and didn't see the VHD as drive c.The Apply Operating System step though - unzipped the OS into the wrong disk. I'll test again
with PE command prompt F8 to check to see if the diskpart script isn't the problem (it completes without error).
That's probably my fault for not adding an manual call of BCDboot at the end of the task sequence. Has anyone successfully done this, albeit non-supported?
Update: The script should work, though it hasn't been tested yet. I found it was being ran AFTER Apply operating system in the SCCM task sequence.
I completely broke my SCCM WDS install for a second time trying to replicate a defect in SCCM 2012 R2 CU3, that I'll write up tomorrow. It involves enabling powershell in one OSD boot image, that breaks ALL deployment.
Luke
Diskpart script:
rem work around any USB disk left in or any CDROM detected by PE as drive D
select volume D
assign letter=F noerr
rem select the formatted volume and reassign it's drive letter
select volume C
assign letter=D
rem create and setup VHD file
create vdisk file=D:\DEV_WIN81.VHD maximum=250000 type=expandable
select vdisk file=D:\DEV_WIN81.VHD
attach vdisk
create partition primary
active
format FS=NTFS quick label="Developer Win81 VHD"
assign letter=C
rescan
exit