MOSD - SCCM 2007 Operating System Deployment (OSD)

Summary

This 5 day course will prepare attendees to plan, design and implement a variety of operating system deployment scenarios using the Operating System Distribution features of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007. Course lectures will focus on guiding participants through the deployment scenarios available using SCCM and OSD, and understand the steps involved with building a deployment infrastructure around these technologies, using custom task sequences, zero touch deployment and additional functionality extensions for OSD in Microsoft deployments.

Prerequisites:

This is not an introductory course to SCCM or OSD. Students must be familiar with SCCM to attend this class and should have a base knowledge of SCCM. It is recommended that students have SCCM knowledge or have attended the MOC 6451 course prior to attending this class.

Instructors:
The instructors that deliver this course are experienced, enterprise consultants who have experience in the deployment of Operations Manager. All of our instructors have real‐world expertise and are both accomplished consultants and excellent presenters that make the delivery interesting and provide insight into real world issues that they have had to provide solutions to.

Description:

Attendees will have the opportunity to complete a variety of operating system deployment scenarios in extensive hands-on exercises.

This class consists of the following sessions:

Session 1: Introduction / Overview
Session 2: Planning Baselines for OS Distribution
Session 3: Planning for OSD in SCCM Sites
Session 4: Building and Capturing a Reference System Image
Session 5: Distributing an Operating System to SCCM Clients
Session 6: Customizing OSD Task Sequences
Session 7: Zero-touch OS Deployment
Session 8: Preparing for Bare Metal Deployments
Session 9: Working with Windows PE and WIM Utilities

Module 1 – Introduction / Overview

This module will cover the following topics:

 OS distribution challenges
 Changes to OS distribution for Vista / Windows Server 2008
 Network boot process
 Provide platform for bootable scenarios such as imaging, security response
 WaIK
 Windows PE
 Key functions of Windows PE
 Windows Deployment Service
 Microsoft Deploymnet Tools 2008
 Intro to OSD
 OSD Benefits and Features
 History of OSD
 Changes to OSD in SCCM 07
 Review

LAB 1: Windows PE customization, MDT 2008

Module 2 - Planning Baselines for OS Distribution

This module will cover the following topics:

 Overview of OSD process
 MDT Integration process
 Benefits of MDT and OSD
 Supported configurations and usage scenarios
 Client refresh
 Client upgrade
 Deploying new clients
 Planning for 32 bit and 64 bit clients
 Planning for user state migration
 Creating reference systems
 Preparing SCCM environment for OSD
 Determining build requirements
 Building software package repository
 Building driver repository
 Customizing the OSD boot image
 Planning for baseline and distributed applications
 Identifying target collections and assessing user application requirements

LAB 2: Preparing the OSD Environment Integrating the MDT tools

Module 3 - Planning for OSD in SCCM sites

 Changes required to SCCM
 Distributing advanced client
 Distributing pre-requisites
 Planning to distribute the OSD boot image to distribution points
 Impact of local and remote distribution points
 Planning for remote and roaming clients
 Planning to deploy State Migration Point systems
 Distributing OS images using multiple SCCM sites
 Planning for site replication

LAB 3: Preparing Secondary sites for OSD

Module 4: Building and Capturing a Reference System Image

This module will cover the following topics:

 Preparing to capture reference systems
 Building and customizing Windows PE
 Create a customized Windows PE image
 Installing network and mass storage drivers into a customized Windows PE
 Creating new Windows PE boot media
 Create a customized OSD boot image
 Creating the OSD Image Capture CD
 Preparing the reference system for imaging
 Capturing image of reference system

LAB 4: Capturing a reference System Image

Module 5: Distributing an Operating System to SCCM Clients

This module will cover the following topics:

 Preparing to distribute an image using SCCM
 Planning Operating System packages
 Preparing SCCM clients for OS distribution
 Increase client cache size
 Intro to task sequences
 Identifying target collections
 Creating target collections
 Create a task sequence
 Advertise and execute a task sequence on a target system

LAB 5: Deploying OS packages

Module 6 - Customizing OSD Task Sequences

This module will cover the following topics:

 Distributing drivers and applications using task sequences
 Installing drivers
 Differences between 32-bit and 64-bit drivers
 Installing 64-bit drivers
 Differences between signed and unsigned drivers
 Installing applications
 Customizing workstation baseline settings
 Creating custom tasks
LAB 6: Customizing OSD Task Sequence

Module 7 – Zero-touch OS Deployment

This module will cover the following topics:

 Customizing settings for individual target systems
 Creating computer associations
 Identifying systems for computer associations
 Importing computer associations from file
 Importing a single computer
 Specifying customized settings
 Creating advertisements for OS distribution

LAB 7: Zero Touch OS Deployment

Module 8 - Preparing for Bare Metal Deployments

This module will cover the following topics:

 Preparing for PXE deployment
 Installing a Windows Deployment server
 Creating computer association
 Assign to a collection
 Advertise a task sequence to a bare metal client
 Using PXE deployment

LAB 8: Deploying OS to bare metal systems
LAB 9: Deploy