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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

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
  - Understanding BigFix OS Deployment components and terminology
    OS Deployment is a platform-based application. Before you begin working with OS Deployment in your environment, become familiar with the key product components and concepts.
  - What is new in OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site 110 (OSD 3.11.2)
    Become familiar with the new and changed features of this release.
  - Features added in previous versions
    In this section, you can find the feature updates from the previous versions.
  - System requirements
    To enable and use OS deployment in your environment, ensure that you have the required software prerequisites.
  - Process overview
    Preparing your environment for deployments of Windows and Linux operating systems involves a set of steps you must complete in your environment.
  - Enable OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site
    To start working with BigFix for OS Deployment, you must enable the OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site.
  - Navigation tree overview
    This topic gives you an overview of using the Navigation tree.
- 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.
- 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

Product overview

BigFix Bare Metal Server, which is part of the 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.

The solution provides complete OS provisioning and system reimaging capabilities for Windows and Linux targets. You can deploy a fully-configured operating system to multiple computers across an enterprise.

You can deploy, configure, and manage BigFix Bare Metal Server from the BigFix infrastructure. After you set up the Bare Metal servers, you can create profiles containing images that become available when computers in the network PXE boot to that server. Computers then select profiles that are downloaded along with all the drivers needed to run the imaging process.

The following graphic shows a high-level view of the OS deployment process and components.