Doubt about LifeCycle Module

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Hi,

we’re trying to implement LifeCycle module in a client. I recentely participated in a course about OS Deployment.

Let’s say you want to deploy a Windows 10 image in a PC with no OS (but connected to LAN). As the PC has no OS, it has not the BigFix Client installed, so, how can we run anything over a PC that is not in BigFix?

Thanks!

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You can leverage PXE boot (bare metal deployments) to lay down an image that has the BigFix client in it.

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The technology behind that is called PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment). It requires PXE boot enabled in the system BIOS (often enabled by default), as well as a PXE-enabled network card, as well as DHCP and PXE services enabled on the network (BigFix OSD Bare Metal Server provides the PXE service).

When the system without an OS starts up, the PXE BIOS loads, the network card asks the network for an IP Address and PXE service through DHCP requests, and is directed to the BigFix OSD Bare Metal Server.

The Bare Metal Server directs the client to download & boot into a small Windows Boot Image (WinPE) and from there connects to the BigFix services to download, configure, and install the OS image and BES Client.

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Lol. What he said but in much better detail. :sunglasses:

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Thank youuuu <3 <3 <3

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