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OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/19/2007 6:31:24 AM

Brian_McKnight

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Hi,

I am going over the installation requirements for the OS Deployment Feature Pack for SMS 2003. All it says is that the server needs to be an SMS Site Server. . .there is no mention as to whether it needs to be a primary site server or if is OK for it to be a secondary site server. I am assuming from this that I can leave my primary site server be and then install SMS 2003 (with the feature pack) as a secondary site server (no local SQL database) along with BDD 2007 on another seperate box. Can someone confirm this for me or give me suggestions if I am off base? Thanks.

-Brian McKnight

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/19/2007 1:32:47 PM

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It needs to be on the Primary sites, Secondar sites have no console since they bascily just distribute and do what the primary tells it to do.
You can also install OSD on your xp machine with the console but mainly on your primarty site servers.

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/19/2007 3:12:57 PM

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I'd also suggest that you start looking at the next generation of BDD 2007, which goes by the name of Microsoft Deployment. You can download the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BD8561F-77AC-4400-A0C1-FE871C461A89&displaylang=en This may save you trouble down the road when/if you migrate to SCCM 2007...

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/19/2007 3:13:49 PM

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Thank you for the input guys.

As a follow-up then, I would ask you (or anyone else) the following: Is is possible then to have BDD 2007/Microsoft Deployment on one box separate from the SMS box and have it integrate with SMS/SCCM with the OSD installed? I am pretty sure that I want a dedicated deployment server but I want to have the option open for me to use the Zero-Touch installation methods if I feel that they fit for our organization. I am pretty much in the embryonic phase of planning this for deploying Vista and would greatly appreciate any insight.

Thanks again,
-Brian McKnight

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/19/2007 3:26:54 PM

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If I understood your question, then the answer is yes.

I've got a separate box (which can even be Windows Vista) that I install my deployment tools on. I use it to create/capture/test new .WIM image files. Once things are nailed down I update a deployment point, which houses the files I then use with the SMS OSD process (I copy up the .WIM to another location too - so I'm not dependent on my OS deployment management machine being turned on and available). It's kind of a convaluted process, but it makes things really flexible in my testing/production environments...

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/19/2007 4:16:29 PM

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Thanks again for your response.

So where then physically is the "deployment point" (the final one where the .WIM images in their producion form are stored and where SMS/SCCM/OSD takes them from to push out)?

I'm assuming as well that these .WIM images are in a contant state of having updates and such slipstreamed into them (I'm thinking at least once a month following Patch Tuesday)?

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/20/2007 3:01:45 PM

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I have a BDD/MDT distribution point set up to stash the files out on our clustered SAN space so that way I don't have to rely on an individual machine being turned on. I then point the SMS/OSD stuff to those stashed files and pull them into SMS and use normal SMS deployment points located on our SMS servers from there.

Take a look here: http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=11032 for step-by-step info.

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 11/20/2007 3:37:08 PM

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Bookmarked for future reference. Thanks again!

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RE: OS Deployment Feature Pack - Installation Requirements - 5/10/2008 11:29:49 AM

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I'm finally getting aroung to reviewing all this again, but I am still a bit confused. RBennett, you indicated that you have your OS Deployment Management Machine on a seperate box from the SMS server but you also indicate that you have the OSD Feature Pack update installed on your OS Deployment Management machine. However, in looking at the system requirements for the OSD Feature Pack update (located here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sms/bb676770.aspx), it says specifically that you need SMS 2003 Service Pack 2 or above installed. I'm not sure then how to replicate the enviroment that you are describing. Can you advise me further? Thanks.

-Brian McKnight

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