dell biz client driver cab os deployment using sccm dcip

Dell Client Operating System Deployment using Driver CAB

Agenda

• Why Dell Cabs?• Introduction to driver cabs• Creating OS image• Importing *Driver Cab• Injecting Winpe drivers• Creating task sequence• OS Deployment

*Driver cab is also referred as Dell Command | Deploy Driver Pack

Why Dell Cabs?

• Administration of large dell enterprise requires consistent methods for managing the diverse network clients.

• IT departments typically manage a heterogeneous mix of decentralized client hardware and various software applications.

• It’s a pain to install os and required drivers/applications on large number of clients .

Solution

• To cater the pain points of Dell Customers ,Dell is providing a solution to leverage the operating system deployment (OSD) capabilities using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr/SCCM 2012 )/KACE/MDT with the Dell Client System Deployment CABs (Dell Command | Deploy Driver Pack) to deploy a customized OS image on Dell client systems.

Introduction to Driver Cabs

• Cab Consist of raw drivers and Manifest.xml

• Manifest.xml carries the information regarding drivers packed in the cab Cab Structure

• CABs are of three types:

System CABs :designed for deployment to a single model Combo CABs: designed for deployment to multiple models WinPE CABs : designed to provide required drivers for WinPE to boot a Dell machine

• A driver Cab is released for an Operating System Family

• A New Driver CAB is spun based on set of Drivers availability for list of devices, It might be new or either old.

• Cabs are released on the cadence like monthly, once in two months , Quarterly

Line of Business Supported

• Optiplex• Latitude• Mobile Precision• Desktop Precision• Tablets• XPS

Supported Os & Architecture

Operating system :– Windows Vista – Windows XP– Windows 7– Windows 8– Windows 8.1

Architecture:– x32-bit – x64-bit

Supported Configurations For Deployment

Note: In SCCM 2012 R2, DCIP 3.1 is used only for driver CAB import. WinPE import is not supported.

Sl.No

SCCM Setup Driver CAB OS Support(Target/Client Systems)

DCIP Support

1 SCCM 2007 Vista, XP, Win7 2.0

2 SCCM 2012 Vista, XP, Win7, Win8 3.0

3 SCCM 2012 Sp1 Vista, XP, Win7, Win8 3.1

4 SCCM 2012 R2 Vista, XP, Win7, Win8, Win8.1

3.1*

WinPE Support

Backward Compatibility of OS is supported on WinPE

Pre-requisite

• System Centre Configuration Manager(SCCM) needs to be installed on a server

• Dell Client Integration Pack(DCIP) needs to be installed• Download the required winpe driver cab and Driver cab

from Support site• Obtain the OS image

Deployment

Deployment typically refers to install OS with drivers includes following steps to be deployed through sccm to target box

-Download driver cab needed for deployment for a specific Operating Systems.

-Inject Winpe drivers to boot image

-Build Images for mass deployment of Operating Systems.

-Import drivers into the boot image

-Create Task Sequence

- OS Deployment

Inject Winpe drivers

Steps to inject winpe drivers to boot image

• Download the Winpe driver cab from support site • Extract cab and copy it to the local host/UNC share path• Ensure Default boot images are present in sccm console• Follow the below slides to add winpe drivers to the boot

images • Below slides show to add drivers for one architecture

only ,same procedure has to be followed for other architecture as well

• Open Config Manager console ,Select Operating Systems ,Select drivers and click Import Driver

Import Driver wizard is opened

Copy Winpe cab to UNC path and extract the cab Browse and select the drivers to be injected

Select required boot image and check Update distribution points

Click Next

drivers are imported successfully to boot image

After drivers are imported ,select the boot image and click on properties

Properties window is open click on drivers tab to ensure all the drivers are imported

Tick the option as shown

Tick the options as shown

Creating os image

Steps to create os image

• Copy the required iso os image to local host or UNC share path

• Extract iso image• Follow the next slides to create os image required for os

deployment

Open Config manager console ,Select Operating System Image and click on Add Operating System Image

Operating System Image Wizard is Opened, Browse and point to the os image folder where os image is extracted

Select install.wim and click open

Ensure install.wim is selected and click next

Provide a name, version and comment for Operating system image and click next

Operating System Image Added Successfully

Select Operating System Image ,click on the Image added in the previous steps and select properties

Tick the check box for the option shown

Select options as shown

Select the image added ,click on properties and distribute content

Ensure correct os is selected and click on next

Click on add and select Distribution point

Ensure Distribution point is selected and select ok

Ensure os image is distributed successfully

Select the image click on properties and select Update Distribution Points

Click ok

• Ensure Content status is in green ,try refreshing many times to turn into green

Import Driver Cab

Steps to Import Driver Cab

• Download the Driver cab required for a platform and specific to os

• Copy cab to localhost /UNC share path• Follow next slides to import cab through DCIP

Open Config Manager console ,Select Dell System Cab Driver Package, right click ,select Dell Client Integration Pack and then Import Client Driver Package

Client Integration Wizard is opened

Ensure default architectures are supported, select distribution point

Ensure Cab extraction

Ensure importing drivers for x64 architecture

Importing drivers for x86 architecture

Importing of drivers is successful

Create Task Sequence

Steps to create task sequence

• Once os image is created, Winpe drivers are added to boot image and driver cab is imported successfully then follow the next slides to add all the above created packages to task sequence

Open config manager console,Select Bare Metal Client Deployment template as shown

Bare metal client deployment task template is opened

Provide the details like Task Sequence Name, network account details

Task sequence created

Select edit to make changes

Click Ok to add the packages to task sequence

Task sequence editor window is opened

Apply driver package created in the earlier steps

Ensure Driver package is chosen

Add details for Windows settings as shown

Enter domain name and the account credentials

Select package for Setup window and configmanager and click on apply and ok .

Right click on the task sequence and select properties , select the boot image

Ensure all the packages are 100% Compliance, by clicking reference tab at the bottom

Select deploy

Deploy Sequence Wizard is seen and click next

Select All Systems

Select option as shown

Select below options

Click Next

OS Deployment

Steps to be performed in target box

• When the task sequence is deployed from sccm , Connect Network cable to target box

• In the target box Press F2 and enable On-board nic option to boot from Pxe, select required modes AHCI or RAID or ATA mode and click apply

• Press F12 and select On-board Nic option and then boot window prompts user to press F12, then loads the default boot image available from the distribution points

• Task sequence wizard is seen,select the task sequence created in earlier steps and proceed with the deployment process

• After OS deployment is complete, login and check in device manager to ensure no yellow bang is seen.

Device Manager has all the devices installed with out any yellow bang

Cab structure

References

• Links to download cabs :

• http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/04?c=&l=&s=bsd

• http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/2065.dell-driver-cab-files-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment.aspx#WinPE

• White paper on Client Os deployment with config manager 2007 :

• http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20183233.aspx

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