OSD Building Blocks

There are many pieces in the ConfigMgr OSD feature that collectively come together to form a cohesive and comprehensive tool to deploy Windows in any environment. Knowing the ins and outs of these pieces, and how they fit together, is vital for using OSD to its fullest and best way possible for your organization’s Windows deployment. The following sections describe each of these building blocks in detail in the order they appear in the console, as shown in Figure 19.1.

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Figure 19.1. Operating systems node in the console.

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