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Drastically Improve Image Deployment for SCCM
On May 22, 2014 in Deployment Discussion by SuperUser Account SuperUser Account

If you work in a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment, you are familiar with the major challenges you face during the deployment process within SCCM's native Operating System Deployment (OSD). First, you have to locate drivers for specific hardware components, then organize and package them. Next, you need to create a task sequence to advertise to a hardware-specific collection. If any errors present themselves along the way, you have to start again from square one.

On paper, it sounds easy, but in reality, when you consider how many different hardware configurations are scattered around your company, it quickly becomes an overwhelmingly complex and time-consuming process. It's a process that's necessary only because none of the native Microsoft tools features a driver database, which makes locating and managing the correct drivers a manual (and burdensome) process.

Streamline your deployment process with the UIU for SCCM
We can take the headache out of OSD through a fully integrated plug-in that safely and smoothly enhances and streamlines your existing SCCM 2007 or 2012 environment. Our Universal Imaging Utility allows SCCM administrators to easily advertise any UIU-configured task sequence to any collection of computers, regardless of manufacturer or model.

All you need to do is create a new, or modify an existing task sequence with the UIU Machine Configuration step, and you've completely eliminated driver packages from the process. During deployment, the UIU real-time discovery tool ascertains the onboard hardware, locates the correct drivers, and incorporates them with the image deployment, ensuring that only the most appropriate drivers are staged. By using only the  latest and most appropriate drivers, the UIU makes sure that every machine boots properly after every deployment.

The driver database
Drivers are always the lynchpin to any successful deployment, and a pain to manage. The UIU contains a fully vetted and updated driver database that validates and maintains over 2,000 business-class drivers and 40,000 Plug-n-Play Ids for supported Windows operating systems. And the database can be set up to update automatically. Because the UIU completely automates driver management, it eliminates the need for SCCM administrators to locate, manage, and package driver files.

The UIU enables IT departments to save considerable time and money by delivering a hardware independent image to any PC.

- Learn more about the UIU for SCCM or request a Free Trial




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Tagged With: driver database automated driver management, driver management, Microsoft SCCM, Operating System Deployment, OSD, SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, UIU, UIU for SCCM, Universal Imaging Utility

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