Archives for: February 2009, 26

Today Dell released there Deployment Pack at Dell Tech Center To download the pack directly click here.

The Deployment Kit consists of a number of items, each one interrelated and playing a part in the overall action of deploying OEM hardware.

The pack contains the following:

Configuration Manager Console Extensions / Custom Task Sequence Actions
These user interface elements provide the custom actions available in the Task Sequence Editor as well as custom forms for creating sample task sequence templates.

OEM-Specific Updates
Each OEM provides additional items specific to their server hardware, such as drivers, updates to WinPE boot images, custom task sequences, sample driver packages, categories, and OEM server configuration toolkits.

Client Task Scripts
As part of the task sequence sent to the client, a series of configuration commands are sent in the form of XML, which is interpreted and executed by a comprehensive VBScript. Environment variables can be queried or set, variables in the task or the files associated with the task can be replaced on the fly, and task commands are executed with great flexibility.

Documentation
Of course, every product needs some form of documentation, which is exactly what you’re reading now.

Installer
To simplify the installation of the various components of the kit, the contents are wrapped in an installation program that imports your interface components into the administrator console, and imports the packages, drivers, and other components into the Configuration Manager site system.

Following is added in the console of ConfigMgr: