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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed
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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed

by Kerrie Meyler, Jason Sandys, Greg Ramsey, Dan Andersen, Panu Saukko, Kenneth van Surksum, Michael Wiles
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 9m
English
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Operating System Version Support

OSD in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 supports deploying every version of Windows supported by ConfigMgr 2012 R2, which includes Windows XP SP 3, Windows Vista SP 2, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Technically speaking (although not from a formal support perspective), support for Windows XP SP 3 is maintained even after its April 2014 end of life because Microsoft has no intention of crippling or removing this capability. However, deploying Windows XP does require additional configuration; this is discussed in the “Down-Level Boot Images” section of this chapter.

Each version of Windows includes a new version of the prerequisite tools discussed in the previous section. The tools generally don’t change much other than ...

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