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ConfigMgr OSD Tips/Tricks – What happens when I do this… uh-oh Chris Nackers Owner, Nackers Consulting [email protected] May 30th, 2012 Moderated by: Sponsored by: Agenda • Welcome: Ron Crumbaker, CTO, myITforum • Overview: myITforum • Chris Nackers – ConfigMgr OSD Tips/Tricks – What happens when I do this… uh-oh • Wrap Up: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum • BDNA Normalize CM Google+ Hangouts & Forums • Reed Porter’s Hangout: http://tinychat.com/reedracer password: welcome • myITforum SCCM GURU webcast live forum http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru • #sccmguru hashtag on twitter myITforum • Ron Crumbaker, myITforum – All things “System Center” – Since 1999 – Large and growing community (over 120,000 visitors a day) – Huge storehouse of System Center knowledge – Noobies to experts About Chris Nackers • Microsoft MVP – ConfigMgr • Owner, Nackers Consulting Services, LLC • Microsoft Management Summit Speaker, spoken at user groups around the country • Avid blogger (chrisnackers.com), long time contributor to myITforum • Started doing ZTI’s “way back” with SMS 2003/BDD 2.5 • “Give me a button and I’ll click it” Agenda • Boot Images & Drivers • Application Mapping – MDT Application Mapping – UDI Application Mapping • Demo City! • Q&A Boot Images Boot Images • Only add the drivers you NEED • NEED = Test, Test, Test • The more drivers you add, the longer the boot time is • Adding unnecessary drivers can increase the WIM size by 5-20% • ConfigMgr increases the WinPE image by roughly 9% alone Boot Images Jeopardy theme starts playing in your head… Boot Images • DEMOS Application Mapping • Process of automatically installing/upgrading applications that were previously installed • All methods use a detection method or some sort Application Mapping - MDT • Has been part of MDT/BDD for many iterations, most people just didn’t know it was there! (Easter egg?) • Using ConfigMgr inventory database in combination with a mapping table • Ability to upgrade older versions of applications automatically Application Mapping - MDT • When we run the TS on client machine: – ZTIGather processes customsettings.ini – PackageMapping creates Packages array – OS Installed (and a few other things) – “Install Software” step processes array and installs packages Application Mapping - UDI • Introduced with MDT 2010 Update 1 • Ability to create mappings based on Product ID or ConfigMgr execution history • No link to existing hardware inventory • MDT 2012/UDI added mapping support for the new Application Model Application Mapping - UDI • When we run the TS on client machine: – UDI preflight runs Application Discovery – Discovered items presented in wizard (based on UDI configuration) – OS Installed (and a few other things) – “Install Software” step processes Packages – “Install Application” step processes Applications Application Mapping • Gotcha’s – Licensed vs Unlicensed applications – Bare metal scenarios • MDT VS UDI – Unwanted installations – Don’t use both methods, pick one Application Mapping • DEMOS Resources • Blog - http://www.chrisnackers.com (also mirrored to myITforum) • myITforum MDT/OSD email list • TechNet forums • Twitter @chrisnack • Book: Deployment Fundamentals Vol 3: Deploying Windows 7 Using ConfigMgr Wrap Up with Rod Trent Next SCCM GURU Webcast: • Wednesday, June 13, 2012 • Jeremy Young, Microsoft IT Service engineer – “Datacenter Configuration Management” www.bdna.com/sccm-guru How to stay in touch • SCCM Guru Webcast Survival Guide – Community Group – Replays on iTunes, YouTube – SCCM Guru Webcast collateral – SCCM Guru SWAG store – Upcoming SCCM Guru webcasts Getting to the Survival Guide • myITforum.com – Services • Events – SCCM Guru Webcast Survival Guide Thanks for attending! To thank you for participating in our SCCM GURU webcast, we’d like to offer EVERYONE on the webcast a super cool SCCM GURU Webcast T-shirt. Please register here: www.bdna.com/chris BDNA Normalize CM™ Pradeep Bhanot Demo and Trial at: http://sccm.bdna.com Questions, Contact Info For more information… BDNA Normalize CM http://sccm.bdna.com [email protected] myITforum Rod Trent [email protected] +1 (513) 217-7122