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Friday, June 26, 2009 5:06 PM

Unable to import WIM into SCCM console

Ran across an interesting issue today.  When trying to import an OSD WIM image into the ConfigMgr console we received an error that ‘the specified path does not contain a valid WIM file’.  Generally, this error can be linked to a corrupt install
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Monday, March 09, 2009 4:55 AM

Installation Failure of OEM Deployment Tools

OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment packs that plug into the OSD feature of SCCM to help deploy operating systems to their specific hardware. These deployment packs provide some cool features - one of which is the ability to provision servers
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:54 AM

MDT and SCCM 2007 - better together

Now that R2 for SCCM has shipped that includes multicast support, unknown computer support and run as support in OSD one might ask the question - why do I need MDT?  There is a great deal to MDT, including the ability to operate standalone and in
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:51 AM

Setting up Multicasting in SCCM

Multicasting is a new feature of R2 in SCCM and is a welcome addition to the OSD feature. Multicast allows for image deployment with a much reduced network load. If, for example, you are deploying a 500 MB image to 20 workstations that have just arrived
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:26 AM

Unknown Computers in SCCM 2007 R2- how it works

My previous blog entry discussed how to configure unknown computer support in SCCM 2007 R2 - but how exactly does it work?  I was curious so dug in a bit.  Let's start by reviewing the logs from an 'unknown' system that has booted from a CD
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:21 AM

Unknown Computers in SCCM 2007 R2 - overview

One of the new features in SCCM 2007 R2 is support for OSD deployments to 'Unknown' Computers - computers that do not exist in the SCCM database. This is a feature that did exist in previous releases of OSD (SMS 2003) but was removed for security and
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Friday, March 02, 2007 7:04 PM

SCCM 2007 OSD - boot images - drivers - lab shell

In the SMS 2003 OSD feature pack one of the common challenges was having the correct drivers on hand ahead of time to ensure smooth operation during the imaging process. Further, seeing into the OSD process during the Windows PE phase required replacing
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:25 PM

SCCM 2007 OSD and driver catalogs

A challenge for customers in OSD feature pack was having the correct drivers available for the hardware being imaged - both during the Windows PE phase and after the image was deployed and the new operating system booted. Further, customers were limited
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:46 PM

SCCM 2007 OSD and task sequences

Another big change for OSD in SCCM 2007 is the introduction of the 'task sequencing' engine. As the name suggests, task sequences allow administrators to define a series of steps that are followed in order for installing an image - such steps include
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:12 PM

OSD in SCCM 2007

There have been quite a few updates to OSD in SCCM 2007. I’ll use the next several entries to go over some of the key changes. For this entry lets discuss one key change that applies to provisioning a bare metal machine. Current releases of the OSD feature
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