Image Upkeep

Image upkeep involves either refreshing an image to include new items such as Windows and other software updates or completely new software applications, configurations, or customizations. Because your images should be hardware agnostic, you should never have to re-create or update them for new hardware or system models.

If you use Build and Capture task sequences to create your images, image upkeep is a matter of updating the task sequence as appropriate and rerunning it. For updates delivered using the built in software updates functionality of ConfigMgr, you won’t even have to update the task sequence; simply re-run the task sequence. Using Build and Capture task sequences also ensures your image is built cleanly every time instead ...

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