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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.
Bare Metal deployments
You can install and manage BigFix for OS Deployment servers and create profiles for bare metal deployments.
Creating bare metal profiles
Create Bare Metal profiles from the Image Library dashboard, which you can then upload to the server.

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.
- 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.
  - Creating bare metal profiles
    Create Bare Metal profiles from the Image Library dashboard, which you can then upload to the server.
    - Creating Bare Metal Profiles for Windows Images
      Create Bare Metal profiles from the Image Library dashboard to perform bare metal deployments on Windows targets.
    - Creating Bare Metal Profiles for Linux Images
      Create Bare Metal profiles from the Image Library dashboard to perform bare metal deployments on Linux targets.
    - Creating Bare Metal Profiles for VMware ESXi Images
      You can create and deploy VMware ESXi Bare Metal profiles on targets.
  - Working with Bare Metal Profiles
  - Deploying a bare metal profile from the target binding menu
  - Deploying bare metal profiles based on target properties
  - Deploying a bare metal profile from the BigFix console
    You can deploy bare metal profiles to targets that are connected to Bare Metal Servers that have the Management Extender for Bare Metal Targets plug-in installed.
  - Capturing and restoring user state of Windows targets
    When you complete an operating system migration on new hardware, you can restore previously captured user settings on the new system.
  - Tuning WinPE TFTP settings for bare metal deployments
    You can tune WinPE download speed during Bare Metal deployments by running task 360.
  - Managing Bare Metal Targets
- 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

Creating bare metal profiles

Create Bare Metal profiles from the Image Library dashboard, which you can then upload to the server.

To deploy images to Windows, Linux and VMware Bare Metal targets, you create bare metal profiles from the Image Library. You then upload the profiles to the Server so that they can be deployed on the selected targets.

Select an image for which to create a bare metal profile and click Create Bare Metal Profile.
creating bare metal profiles from the image library

A wizard with the information retrieved from the image is displayed. Depending on whether the type of image you select is a Linux or VMware image (.LIM), or a Windows image (.WIM), the fields you are required to specify differ.