The Alphabet Soup of Prerequisites
OSD at its core is an automation engine, typically referred to as a task sequence engine because it uses task sequences to define the tasks it performs. Under the covers, the actions performed in OSD primarily utilize the tools provided by Windows itself, Windows setup, and the various toolkits released by Microsoft to automate Windows setup. For ConfigMgr 2012 R2, these prerequisite tools are as follows:
User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) 8.1
Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) 5
Windows deployment tools ...
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