What’s New and Upcoming with OS Deployment in System Center Configuration Manager and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Kristina HotzJason Githens

EM-B326

Upgrading to Windows 10 with System Center Configuration Manager

Revisiting the past—the historical challenges of refreshing and upgrading Windows (as if you didn’t know)Moving forward—improvements in refresh, and an all-new, awesome upgrade experienceThe real-world—Overview of Microsoft IT’s upgrade to 8.1Going under the hood on the new upgrade experience, command-line switches and all

Introducing the deployment tools for Windows 10What’s new with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and the ADKWindows Image Configuration Designer and Provisioning Packages (when/why ADK, SCCM, MDT, WICD)

Demos, Demos, and Demos

Key Takeaways

Upgrading to Windows 10 with System Center Configuration Manager

The refresh challengeTakes a LONG time end-to-end

Large content size, image and all the apps

Failures can be difficult to recover from—lost

productivity

Complex processes to migrate data, settings, apps

Upgrading Configuration Manager to the latest

version

The improved refresh experience

New, Window 10 ADK now support N-3, from Windows 10 back to

Windows 7Support for Windows 10 deployments on your current Configuration Manager version (back to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1)

New version of MDT (more on MDT later)

Driver management UI improvements

BranchCache with WinPE (to help with the large payload problem)

Improved task sequence resilience for unknown reboots

Improved SMSTS logging logic (file size and how values are

stored/retained)

Demo

Key features that make refresh easier

Said MSIT, when we planned the move from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1

“Let us upgrade!”

• 97% success rate in deployments and help desk calls were reduced by 48%.

• Using the available standard deployment images reduced complexity.

• The upgrade preserved user data, settings, and applications.• The deployment method leveraged System Center 2012

Configuration Manager.• Reporting leveraged the data collected in System Center 2012

Configuration Manager to gain insights into upgrade deployment results.

• Bottom line: The Windows 8.1 upgrade had lower cost than traditional operating system deployments.

So, we did

But we learned some things we had to do better . . .

The upgrade challengeReliance (and hope) that the Configuration Manager client recovers after being run over by a truck

Difficult to perform critical pre and post-upgrade actions

Lack of status (radio silence) after upgrade

Complexity managing key content like drivers, language

packs, and other applications

The all-new upgrade experienceDeep integration of Windows setup with Configuration Manager Task Sequence

Pre and post processing actions integrated into upgrade

Drivers and language packs sourced through Configuration Manager in upgrade workflow

Configuration Manager client doesn’t have to recover

Upgrade model works on existing ConfigMgr versions (back to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1)

Anatomy of the new setupSetup.exe /Auto Upgrade /Quiet /compat IgnoreWarning /NoReboot /PostOobe %SystemDrive%\_vNextUpgrade\setupcomplete.cmd /PostRollback %SystemDrive%\_vNextUpgrade\setuprollback.cmd

setupcomplete.cmd# trigger and wait for the CM client to repair on the new OS       $process = Start-Process $env:WinDir\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe -ArgumentList "/remediate:client" -Wait -NoNewWindow –PassThru #enable health tasks

schtasks /change /tn "\Microsoft\Configuration Manager\Configuration Manager Health Evaluation" /enable | Create-LogEntry

schtasks /change /tn "\Microsoft\Configuration Manager\Configuration Manager Idle Detection" /enable | Create-LogEntry

schtasks /change /tn "\Microsoft\Configuration Manager\Configuration Manager Maintenance" /enable | Create-LogEntry

setupcomplete.cmd# start and wait for the task sequence        $service = Get-Service -Name "smstsmgr"       Set-Service -Name $service.Name -StartupType Automatic       Start-Service -Name $service.Name       $service.WaitForStatus("Stopped") # Disable Client Provisioning ModeInvoke-WmiMethod -Namespace root\CCM -Class SMS_Client -Name SetClientProvisioningMode -ArgumentList $False

Demo

The new upgrade experience and deep dive on the upgrade Task Sequence

Introducing the Tools

The Toolkit(s)Microsoft Deployment Toolkit v.Next (MDT)• Windows 10 Deployment Support• Windows 10 Upgrade Support• Updated Task Sequence binaries to the ConfigMgr v.Next Task

Sequence• Removed deprecated components node from the workbench• Making LTI and ZTI more accessibility compliant• All documentation now on TechNet (removed legacy CHMs and

DOCX)

NEW! Windows Image and Configuration Designer

Windows Image and Configuration Designer

is used to

• Build a customized Mobile or Desktop

image • Create a provisioning package that allows

to customize Windows devices without re-imaging.

Provisioning Package can be • Consumed from removable media

(SD/USB)• Applied through USB tether or NFC tag• Attached to email or downloaded from

network• Embedded in the OS image

WHAT can be customized by provisioning package:

• First run experience customization• Bulk enrollment into MDM• Application - Store (with VPP), Line of

Business, Win32• Enterprise policies - Security restrictions,

encryption, update settings• Enterprise profiles - Wi-Fi, VPN, Email• Root, CA and Client Certificates• Offline content – documents,

audio/video, pictures

If you are a . . .

And want to . . . Use . . .

System Builder or OEM

Configure and apply Windows images on new desktop and mobile devices

WICD to create full image media

Small organization 

Customize new desktop and mobile devices WICD to create provisioning package

Configure and apply Windows images on new desktop devices

WICD to create full image media

Mid-sized organization  

Create and deploy custom Windows images on new or existing desktop devices

MDT and/or Configuration Manager to create and deploy custom image

Configure and apply Windows images on new desktop devices

WICD to create media

Customize mobile devices WICD to create provisioning package

Large organization 

Create and deploy custom Windows images on new or existing desktop devices

MDT and/or Configuration Manager to create and deploy custom image

Customize new desktop and mobile devices WICD to create provisioning packageNote: Combinations of tools are possible, such as putting WICD provisioning package in custom SCCM, MDT, or OEM image

Demo

Provisioning Packages through the Image and Configuration Designer

Bringing it all together . . .

Upgrade is a first class citizen—try it!Refresh is still an option, and getting betterWe’re giving you more tools, and making the existing ones better

Breakout SessionsTuesday, October 28th, 3:15 PM-4:30 PM: EM-B216 - Enterprise Client Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Intune

Wednesday, October 29th, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: EM-B321 - Infrastructure Deployment for Mobile Device Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Intune

Wednesday, October 29th, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM - Securing Mobile Device Access to Corporate Resources with Intune

Thursday, October 28th, 3:15 PM-4:30 PM: EM-B312 - Mobile Application Management with Intune

Friday, October 31st, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: EM-B317 - Configuring Corporate-Owned Mobile Devices with Intune

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