Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager

Updated: December 1, 2008

Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

Operating System Deployment allows you to create operating system images and deploy those images to target computers. Operating System Deployment also provides task sequences which help facilitate the deployment of operating system images, and other Configuration Manager 2007 software packages.

The following topics are included in this section:

For additional information, see Configuration Manager 2007 Information and Support.
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Deploy and then migrate vs. Deploy and migrate at the same time

hedo01 | Edit | Show History

I am working with a customer that is upgrading their entire corporation to Windows 7. There is about a 60/40 split when it comes to upgrade vs. refresh. The company is also in the process of migrating to a brand new Active Directory domain that is Server 2008 R2 native. The question I have is what is best practice, upgrading and refreshing the users to Windows 7 then migrating them to the new domain, or is it better to upgrade and refresh and at the same time migrate them to the new domain during the process. I am having trouble finding this senario in any documents. The customer is using Quest tools to handle the migration from the existing domain to the new domain and all GPO's will be setup as new in the target domain. SCCM 2007 is also deployed in the target domain.

Chris