Modena was put together by a team of people developing solutions for Microsoft's own internal IT group.  They have made the tools available as-is on the Connect website for others to use as they wish (with no support or any plans for ongoing updates - as soon as MS IT is happy with them they're done).  We are having some discussions with the team to see how we can integrate these tools into MDT, but there are no definitive plans at this point.

Modena is basically a wizard, a set of pre-flight checks, some in-flight progress displaying, some application reinstall features (e.g. today's blog posting), and a few other things.  There is definitely some overlap with MDT, some pieces that aren't in MDT, etc.  As you can probably guess, those involved didn't know what MDT could or couldn't do.

The driver tool (called Andretti - ha ha) is really separate from Modena, but available for download from the same place on Connect.  It's a tool to populate WSUS with a bunch of drivers so that when Windows machines are deployed without those drivers WSUS will happily deliver the drivers to them.

-Michael

Interesting post here today on it http://blogs.technet.com/osd/archive/2009/09/15/application-discovery-osd-results.aspx


> Subject: RE: [mssms] Re: What is Modena?
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:47:16 +0100
> From: Maik.Koster@c-a-m.com
> To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
>
> I would also be interested to know a bit more about what this exactly is. For me it seems to be an extension of the current SCCM OSD adding mainly a customizable Wizard (the pre-flight idea is nice) and some scripts. The Driver Synch Tool sounds interesting but without having tested it it's hard to tell what it is doing exactly.
>
> It doesn't seem to be related to MDT in any way. I would guess another group at Microsoft working on the same topic as some others and inventing "their" solution ;-) (sry, couldn't resist)
>
> Regards
>
> Maik
>
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> Sent: Mittwoch, 16. September 2009 06:58
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> Subject: [mssms] Re: What is Modena?
>
> I honestly have absolutely no idea. If you find out, *please* tell me. I wasn't able to download it when someone mentioned it a few days ago. Best I could tell, it's some sort of scripting value add on top of SCCM. Of course, I could be waaaaay off.
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> BTW, why didn't this e-mail have the mssms header on the subject line? It bypassed my filter.
>
> -Trevor
>
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> Sent: Tue Sep 15 23:48:34 2009
> Subject: What is Modena?
>
> I feel like I keep up on this list pretty well, but I stumbled across Modena on Microsoft Connect and I had never heard of it.
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/osd/
>
> I am having trouble figuring out what it is - even after reading about what it is. How does it relate to MDT? Why is it being called OSD? Is it the replacement version of SCCM OSD or did the Modena group just steal the acronym?
>
> Is this the OSD that is delivered as part of SCCM SP2? Or is this some new thing that plugs in to change OSD separately from OSD that is built-in to SCCM? How does that driver stuff relate to the driver stuff in MDT 2010?
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>
> Sorry if this has already been covered.
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