(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)
Woooo love it when IBM takes down the forums mid day for maintenance.
Could someone give me the long and the short of the OS Deployment and what this new MDT Media Creator is and what it means for Bare Metal install?
In the past I had created an image and uploaded it to the TEM server and managed to deploy it out, but the profile did not carry and the resolution was set to 1024X768, just like the PE. But I somehow broke that server and had to rebuild it, so I lost all my work.
Currently we build a master image with Windows 7 x64 and install all of the software and drivers we need and customize it to our needs. Then once this is complete, I have a custom answer file for sysprep that we use, once it has syspreped, we PXE boot it to a Ghost server and upload it.
Then when it is time to image an area, we pxe boot all of the machines and deploy the image out, come back hit ok, then name and join them to the domain.
I understand that the way TEM OSD works, it allows me to push the image and keep it joined to the same domain and with the same name. I have no idea how the new Media Creator works for Bare Metal. That is our only concern. How do we image bare metal machines.
So any help is appreicated.