Troubleshooting OS Deployment MMS Minnesota 2014 Johan Michael #MMSOSD

Agenda

Available for download Demo environment

ConfigMgr v.Next and MDT v.Next In general, minor changes and bug fixes Driver import filtering New WinPE version (Windows 10 ADK) Including BranchCache Log configuration is easier Operating System Installer -> Operating System Upgrade Package New Task Sequnce binaries for MDT 2013 Lite Touch Make LTI and ZTI more Accessibility Compliant Documentation on TechNet, no longer CHM and DOCX

General Driver Challenges Challenges: A constantly changing list of “supported” hardware Rapidly-changing PC hardware “Configuration of the day” vendors Chipsets / CPUs Infrastructure Optimization, standardization Maybe even less frequent purchases

Driver Solutions - What approach to take “Chaos” “Control Freak” Let the tool decide Explicitly specify Find a happy medium

Windows Drivers Boot Image Drivers (WinPE 5.0) Primarily Nic & Storage Uses Windows 8.1 and/or WS 2012 R2 drivers Operating System Drivers All drivers Depending on what you are deploying

Demo “Finding” drivers

Drivers in MDT 2013 Lite Touch Deployment Share holds driver repository Import Folders / Selection profiles Designed to be dynamic Rules-based process to help filter DriverGroup DriverPaths (legacy)

Demo MDT 2013 Lite Touch Driver Injection

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Drivers Driver catalog Driver packages Used for two purposes: Driver distribution (replication) “Forced” driver installation Driver categories Used as a filter when automatically detecting needed drivers Offline injection “just in time”

ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Drivers Auto apply drivers Drivers are matched by PnP ID Apply driver package Only the specified package is used All drivers are injected

Demo ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Driver Injection

Drivers Tips & Tricks Unsigned versus signed drivers Understanding driver ranking Troubleshooting driver Infs Scratchspace Drivers as Applications BlueTooth, QLB, Mobile Broadband, Biometric Hybrid Scenarios

Demo Drivers Tips & Tricks

Resources deploymentresearch.com blogs.technet.com/mniehaus MMS Minnesota 2014

Resources – Trainings, Videos, books deploymentartist.com

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