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OS Deployment
BigFix OS Deployment, which is part of the BigFix Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy new workstations and servers throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution saves time and money, enforces a standardized and approved image, and reduces risks associated with non-compliant or insecure configurations.
Managing MDT Bundles and Deployment Media for Windows targets
To perform OS Deployment of Windows operating systems, you prepare your deployment environment and resources using the Bundle and Media Manager Dashboard.
Creating and managing MDT Bundles manually
Use the Fixlets and tasks in the MDT Bundle Creator Setup node to manually prepare your environment for creating MDT Bundles.
MDT Bundle creation process
To create your deployment bundle using the MDT Bundle Creator, you must customize a parameter file with the required options.

OS Deployment
BigFix OS Deployment, which is part of the BigFix Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy new workstations and servers throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution saves time and money, enforces a standardized and approved image, and reduces risks associated with non-compliant or insecure configurations.
- Product overview
- Configuring the OS Deployment Environment
  To start working with OS Deployment, run the configuration Fixlets and tasks listed in the Setup Node.
- Managing MDT Bundles and Deployment Media for Windows targets
  To perform OS Deployment of Windows operating systems, you prepare your deployment environment and resources using the Bundle and Media Manager Dashboard.
  - Bundle and Media Manager Dashboard
    You can install MDT Bundle Creators, and create MDT Bundles and Deployment Media using the Bundle and Media Manager dashboard.
  - Creating and managing MDT Bundles manually
    Use the Fixlets and tasks in the MDT Bundle Creator Setup node to manually prepare your environment for creating MDT Bundles.
    - MDT Bundle creation process
      To create your deployment bundle using the MDT Bundle Creator, you must customize a parameter file with the required options.
    - Prerequisites
      If you have downloaded the MDT Bundle Creator tool manually, make sure you have installed all the correct prerequisites before you run the tool.
    - MDT Bundle creation options
      You must customize your MDT deployment bundle by specifying the required options in the parameters.ini configuration file.
- Managing Drivers for Windows Deployments
  The Manage Images and Drivers node includes tasks to prepare and import drivers for deployment to Windows targets.
- Managing Linux OS Resources and Deployment Media
  You can import Linux OS Resources needed to create network boot media and to capture and deploy Linux images
- Managing Images
  The Manage Images and Drivers node includes tasks to capture, import and manage images for deployment to targets.
- Upload Mode
  By default, the OS images are permanently stored in the BigFix root server.
- Reimaging
  Reimaging is the process of saving the user state on a computer, installing a new image on it, and then restoring the user state.
- Installing Windows 10 or Windows 11 using in-place upgrade
  To upgrade your existing Windows systems to Windows 10 or Windows 11 you can use the in-place upgrade fixlets.
- Bare Metal deployments
  You can install and manage BigFix for OS Deployment servers and create profiles for bare metal deployments.
- Monitoring Deployment Activities
  You can track and monitor all deployment activities in your Endpoint Management network.
- Maintenance and troubleshooting
  You can monitor deployment activities, correct exceptions and adjust configuration settings specific to your environment through dashboards and tasks available for these purposes.
- Setting up OS Deployment in an air-gapped network
  You can choose to configure your OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site in an air-gapped network.
- Deprecated and Superseded functionalities
  This topic lists the functionalities that are still present in OSD, but are deprecated.
- Create Ubuntu OS Resources manually

MDT Bundle creation process

To create your deployment bundle using the MDT Bundle Creator, you must customize a parameter file with the required options.

You use the MDT Bundle Creator tool to create any of the following:

An MDT Bundle that does not include any OS resource.
An MDT Bundle that includes one or more OS resources.
One or more OS resources only.

Depending on what you are creating with the MDT Bundle Creator tool, you must specify the corresponding parameters in the parameters.ini file, before you run it. The process is described in the following steps:

Download the appropriate version of the MDT Bundle Creator. If you download the tool manually, extract the file into a clean directory.
Check that you have all the required prerequisites, as detailed in Prerequisites.
Edit the parameters.ini configuration file. The parameters.ini file is used to specify a target output directory and the locations of prerequisites and OS resources. All available configuration options are in MDT Bundle creation options. The only mandatory parameters are listed in the General section of the file.
Run the appropriate MDT Bundle Creator for your architecture from within the extracted directory as an Administrator. Run MDTBundleCreator.exe or MDTBundleCreator64.exe depending on your architecture. A setup.log file is created in this directory.
Important: If an Antivirus program is running simultaneously with the MDT Bundle Creator, the resulting bundle might be corrupted, causing the upload step to fail. You must stop or temporarily disable the Antivirus program before running the tool and for the time needed to complete the bundle creation process.
The bundle creation process takes about 30 to 60 minutes to complete and results in the creation of the MDTBundle folder beneath the directory specified as the target in parameters.ini configuration file.
Upload the MDT Bundle on the BigFix server. See Creating and uploading MDT Bundles and OS resources.