Provisioning the Endpoint Protection client in a disk image in Configuration Manager

The Endpoint Protection client can be pre-installed on a computer that you want to use as a reference computer for the Configuration Manager operating system deployment. You can then deploy this disk image which also contains software packages, including Endpoint Protection client to your client computers or for setting up new computers.

What purpose or benefit could there be in provisioning the Endpoint Protection client in the disk image?

It will save some time during massive operating system deployments. On the other hand, on a daily basis you will need to maintain and update your Disk Image more often to ensure you have the latest Endpoint Protection client. ...

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