Troubleshoot Operating System Deployment

Operating System Deployment (OSD) is a very commonly used feature of Configuration Manager. It provides administrators with the necessary tools to create operating system images that can be deployed to computers. OSD troubleshooting can be a complicated process. There are so many different components and technologies working together to provide the solution:

  • Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK)
  • Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) (replacement for AIK)
  • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
  • Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
  • TCP/IP Networking

Network installation of OS images is a very popular deployment method. It leverages Windows Deployment Services and ADK to provide a Pre-Execution environment, which ...

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