Preparation

When you understand the requirements for your deployment, you can set about gathering the needed resources, importing them into ConfigMgr, and performing any necessary ConfigMgr configuration or hierarchy modification to meet those requirements.

Necessary resources include OS source media, application source files, drivers, configuration scripts, test systems, and storage space. Many of these resources including the OS source files, drivers, and applications must be imported into ConfigMgr for use in OSD—the import of both OS source files and drivers is covered in the “Operating System Installers” and “Drivers” sections of this chapter. Applications and software distribution packages are covered in detail in Chapter 11, “Packages ...

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