Scenario:

You are using MDT 2012 Update 1 (Lite Touch or Zero Touch), you have enabled MDT monitoring and you would like to know if the deployment of the machine was ok.

Solution:

Use PowerShell to read from the event log, since the MDT Monitor feature will write in the event log

Display on screen in text

Get-EventLog -ComputerName MDT01 -LogName Application -Source MDT_Monitor | select TimeGenerated, EntryType, InstanceID, Message | Format-Table

Display using the gridview

Get-EventLog -ComputerName MDT01 -LogName Application -Source MDT_Monitor | Out-GridView

Display using HTML

Get-EventLog -ComputerName MDT01 -LogName Application -Source MDT_Monitor | select TimeGenerated, EntryType, InstanceID, Message | ConvertTo-Html -title "OS Deployment status: $ENV:COMPUTERNAME" -body (get-date) -pre "<H1>OS Deploymentstatus for: $ENV:COMPUTERNAME </H1><P>Generated by Corporate IT</P>" -post "<P>For details, contact Corporate IT.</P>" > $ENV:TEMP\MDTstatus.htm; Invoke-Item $ENV:TEMP\MDTstatus.htm

/mike