Tips for using OEM Deployment Tools
Steve Rachui has a great post on an issue he ran into using a couple deployment packs from IBM and Dell. He includes his resolution as well so if you’re using any of these you might want to check this out:
OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment packs that plug into the OSD feature of SCCM to help deploy operating systems to their specific hardware. These deployment packs provide some cool features - one of which is the ability to provision servers with a variety of system requirements (BIOS, Hard Disk structure, RAID, etc.). I was working an issue recently trying to get one of these toolkits installed and thought it would be worth sharing here.
To continue reading visit http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2009/03/09/installation-failure-of-oem-deployment-tools.aspx
J.C. Hornbeck | Manageability Knowledge Engineer
