Cravings of OSD

Managing Drivers using WSUS at Microsoft - Introduction to "Andretti"

Drivers: Do they have to be this hard? At Microsoft, we have ~280,000 desktops worldwide that we are managing. We spend a great deal of time (probably too much – honestly) trying to better understand how to manage the driver ecosystem. For example, a Read More...

Snazzy OSD status with BGInfo

Controlling the look and feel throughout OSD a very important part of creating a good user experience. Not only is the out-of-box experience a bit bland, it’s unfamiliar and confusing to someone who’s never experienced OSD before. Our goal in this article Read More...

Creating a user-interactive Task Sequence experience

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How to enable OSD deployments from PXE without losing WDS functionality

Overview Customer’s may want to keep their WDS images and functionality while allowing for all the richness OSD provides. However, if they setup a PXE service point role on their WDS server then OSD is the first PXE provider in the list and therefore Read More...