Deploying Windows 10: Automating Deployment by Using System Center Configuration Manager

✍ Scribed by Monica, Andre Della;Rimmerman, Russ;Cesarini, Alessandro

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 97
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Get a head start deploying Windows 10--with tips and best practices from experts in the field. This guide shows you how to deploy Windows 10 in an automated way without impacting end users by leveraging System Center Configuration Manager, which is the most used product to deploy Microsoft operating systems in the industry today.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword......Page 7
Errata, updates, & book support......Page 8
Stay in touch......Page 9
Chapter 1: Why implement Windows 10?......Page 10
The Welcome experience......Page 11
What’s new in the user interface......Page 13
Customizing the Start menu......Page 14
Introducing Action Center......Page 15
Switching between Desktop mode and Tablet mode......Page 16
Creating a new virtual desktop......Page 17
Using Snap......Page 18
Cortana......Page 19
Cortana voice commands......Page 20
Push Button Reset improvements......Page 21
Fixing specific sites......Page 22
About security......Page 24
Windows Hello......Page 25
Isolated User Mode......Page 28
The Windows 10 upgrade process......Page 29
In-place upgrade......Page 30
Predeployments steps......Page 31
Step 2: Assessing readiness......Page 32
Manual in-place upgrade......Page 37
Phase 1: Down Level (Old OS)......Page 38
Phase 2: Start into WinRE (copying files)......Page 40
Recoverability......Page 41
Bare-metal installation......Page 42
Windows To Go......Page 43
Windows Update approach......Page 44
Get Windows 10 App......Page 46
Prerequisites......Page 48
Configuring WSUS to support in-place upgrades......Page 49
Moving the focus to Configuration Manager......Page 50
Chapter 3: Configuration Manager Operating System Deployment concepts......Page 52
The purpose of OSD......Page 53
Infrastructure requirements......Page 54
WinPE......Page 56
Task sequences......Page 58
Task sequence variables......Page 60
Drivers and driver packages......Page 62
Image deployment......Page 64
Scheduling deployments......Page 66
Unknown computers......Page 67
UEFI versus BIOS......Page 68
Reporting......Page 69
Logging......Page 70
User Device Affinity......Page 71
Online resources......Page 72
Chapter 4: Using System Center Configuration Manager to deploy Windows 10......Page 73
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit integration withOperating System Deployment......Page 74
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit......Page 76
Customizing the Windows 10 image......Page 79
Deploying and supporting Windows 10......Page 80
Managing disk configurations......Page 81
Upgrade scenarios......Page 84
Optimizing the Windows 10 image deployment......Page 91
Monitoring the Windows 10 image deployment......Page 92
After the Windows 10 image deployment......Page 93
About the authors......Page 94
Contributing author......Page 95