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MDT’s Retirement Exposes a Critical Gap in Modern OS Deployment Strategies 

April 2, 2026

Petri published an article on Recast’s Windows Deployment survey and the analysis from Recast Senior Software Engineer David Segura. The findings show an industry in transition, revealing how MDT’s retirement is making IT teams rethink their approach to Windows OS deployment in a cloud‑first yet bare‑metal‑dependent world.

Originally published in Petri.

Excerpt: “Organizations should align their deployment strategy with their broader endpoint‑management roadmap by clearly defining the limitations of cloud‑only approaches and planning compensating solutions where needed.”

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