deploy OS without adding PC to collection?

[ket]

*SOVLED*

 

Hi everyone,

 

Would it be possible for PC to boot without adding PC to collection? (So I can just connect a bare metal machine to network and boot it up from there to install image?) I know it sounds like WDS where I just need to connect the PC to network and choose NIC to boot.

 

Do SCCM have a way around to boot a PC connect to SCCM server, like a USB type of thing or CD where I can just insert them and use it to boot the PC to connect to server and image the machine, with the settings/unattended file stored in USB drive. So the PC know which image and software to grab to install.

 

The main goal is that I want to know, how fast is a SCCM can deploy an default OS + software to a PC comparing to WDS to image a PC with a image that already built.

 

the reason is that im start setting up this because the place I work, they want me to test this on locally first before use this on the live network.

[anyweb]

yes you can right click on the task sequence and choose create standalone media and make usb or dvd/cd media

[ket]

yes you can right click on the task sequence and choose create standalone media and make usb or dvd/cd media

 

Thanks for the speedy reply dude!

 

having a problem now, "This computer is not registered with the configuration manager". A quick research on google and found out:

 

"To deploy an operating system to a new computer without stand-alone media that is not currently managed by Configuration Manager 2007, the new computer must be added to the Configuration Manager 2007 database prior to initiating the operating system deployment process. Although Configuration Manager 2007 can automatically discover computers on your network that have a Windows operating system installed, if the computer has no operating system installed you will need to import the new computer information by using the Import Computer Information Wizard. This wizard supports importing information about a single computer, or importing information about one or more computers from an external .csv file." source: http://brothertu.blogspot.com/2008/09/error-this-computer-is-not-registered.html

 

Tried to import the PC to the collection and it worked. but is it possible to avoid adding a PC to the collection?

 

is there any option to allow me to skip the retrieving policy stage, so it wont ask me to import PC details and add it to collectio.

 

Thanks!!

[anyweb]

if you use R2 or R3 it will give you the unknown computers collection, you can advertise task sequences to that and when you boot an unknown pc it will see the task sequence,

 

does that help ?

[ket]

if you use R2 or R3 it will give you the unknown computers collection, you can advertise task sequences to that and when you boot an unknown pc it will see the task sequence,

 

does that help ?

 

Yeah, thanks for the reply dude. Already figured it out and got R2 installed now PXE Point and bootable option gave me an option for "Support unknown computers".

 

Thanks anyweb your the man!