Chapter 12. Deploying Windows

Configuring ConfigMgr to deploy Windows is certainly one of the harder tasks to perform. A successful deployment relies on a lot of moving parts working together properly, and many of them, such as device drivers, networks, server infrastructure, and physical systems, are independent of ConfigMgr itself.

The work you’ve done in chapter 11 has prepared the lab environment for a Windows deployment, and as you can see in figure 12.1, by end of this chapter that’s exactly what you’ll have achieved.

Figure 12.1. The prep work has been done—it’s time to deploy Windows!

12.1. Creating a new client system

The first step ...

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