How to pre-stage for UEFI systems with OSD in ConfigMgr 2012

Microsoft’s own Steve Rachui just posted a great new article that talks about how to pre-stage an operating system for deployment with OSD in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.

The concept of pre-staging an operating system for deployment with OSD is well understood and effective. There is plenty of documentation detailing configuring pre-staging for legacy BIOS based systems. But what about pre-staging with UEFI based systems? I and a couple of colleagues struggled through this recently. The process if similar in concept to BIOS based systems but different in implementation. Before I get to the details let me start from the beginning…

You can continue reading Steve’s article here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2013/09/13/osd-pre-stage-and-uefi-systems.aspx

J.C. Hornbeck| Solution Asset PM | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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