What’s New in OSD

Although on the surface OSD doesn’t appear to be that different from its ConfigMgr 2007 predecessor, there are several improvements or additions to functionality. Here is a list summarizing these changes; complete discussions of each are incorporated into the appropriate or relevant sections of the chapter.

Offline Servicing: This new capability lets you schedule ConfigMgr to apply updates to an OS image imported into ConfigMgr without actually deploying the image. This potentially removes the need to deploy updates during an image capture or deployment, greatly reducing the time and effort spent on them and ensuring that operating systems deployed by ConfigMgr are fully updated before brought online. This task is discussed ...

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