FAQ

• Windows 10
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Server OS

• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2003 R2
• Windows Server 2003

• Websocket port - 8443(HTTPS), 8444(HTTP)
• PXE port - 69, 4011

Yes, OS imaging and deployment is supported on Windows Surface Pro machines.

WinPE media is required to boot the machines in to Windows Pre-installation environment to perform deployment and offline imaging.

• Windows PE 10.0 Media - Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012
• Windows PE 5.0 Media - Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012
• Windows PE 4.0 Media - Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
• Windows PE 3.0 Media - Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, & Windows Server 2008
• Windows PE 2.0 Media - Windows Vista, Windows Sever 2008, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

OS Deployment supports only X86 and X64 WinPE architecture.

OS Deployment supports machine based licensing, that is the number of workstation and server machines on which you want to perform deployment. Here the licenses are tied to the machine's MAC address and once you purchase a license for a machine, you can perform any number of deployments on that machine. Depending on the operating system, you need to have either a workstation or a server license. E.g., to perform deployment on 100 workstation machines, you need to purchase 100 workstation licenses.

Yes, you can deploy images on dissimilar hardware as hardware-independent imaging is supported in OS deployment.

Automatic collection's driver repository is used to store the drivers which are collected during image creation process. If you have configured more than one of this repository, you can delete the repository from the product console itself. However, the repository will get deleted only in the UI and the network share has to be manually deleted by the user. It is always required to have at least one configured driver repository to store the automatically collected drivers.

From the product console, you will be able to delete the manual collection drivers and you will not be allowed to delete the automatic collection drivers. However, you can delete the drivers from both the repository directly from their respective network share.

The manual collection's driver repository will get synced every 4 hours. For automatic collections, since the server is directly collecting the drivers, the repository will not be synced.

The applications required for remote office deployment will be replicated automatically to the Endpoint Central Distribution Server installed location (<DesktopCentral_DistributionServer installed location>\replication\osdrepository) in the Distribution Server computer.

The drivers required for remote office deployment will be replicated automatically to the driver repository available in the remote office.

Currently, the image has to be manually copied from one repository to another. After copying the image to a new repository, you have to modify the repository path in the image details. To modify the repository, select the image and view the image details. Here, near the image repository, select the edit icon to modify the repository path.