I would like to use a virtual machine as a refernce computer during capture and depoly

Hello all
I can't seem to find a good step by step on using a virtual machine as a refernce computer for the capture and depoly part of OSD. Does anyone have a link that has helped them?
Thanks,
Phil
Phil Balderos

It is pretty straight forward, same way you would do a B&C on a physical. Only added benefit is you don't have a bunch of garbage drivers preloaded into the OS.
I can give you a high level type of approach:
Create your B&C task sequence inside of SCCM
Advertise to your unknown computers collection
Using your Virtualization software, provision your VM with standard hardware. Nothing special
PXE boot your VM into the SCCM OSD
Choose your advertised B&C task sequence
Once complete, add your newly captured WIM to the Operating System Images node in SCCM
Create a Deploy Task Sequence
Advertise that to your unknown computer collection
PXE boot one of your physical boxes and test the new task sequence to ensure the new image works/looks properly
Please note: Step 9 may take some additional configuration of boot drivers in order to work depending on your hardware you are trying to deploy to
It's hard to get any more in depth on a walkthrough with that process unless you wanted to start getting hardware/software specific. If you have questions along the way about specifics we can always help with that as well
Dustin Estes - MCP | www.dustinestes.com
This is good stuff Dustin! Thanks. I will actually work on this now
Phil Balderos

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