In This Chapter

• What OSD Does

• What’s New in OSD

• Deployment Scenarios

• Tools Incorporated into OSD

• OSD Phases

• OSD Building Blocks

• Site System Roles

• Driver Management

• User State

• Image Operations

• User Device Affinity

• Deployment Challenges

• Monitoring Task Sequence Deployments

• Troubleshooting

Deploying a new operating system (OS) into any corporation, large or small, is a large undertaking with vast implications. The cost of not properly planning and executing your move to a new OS can be huge and includes things like extra work, upset users, and potential data loss. Understanding the technical complexity to deploy a new OS led to the operating system deployment (OSD) feature set introduced in Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) ...

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