Unattended Deployment of Microsoft® Windows® on HP Business-Class Products with Microsoft SCCM 2007 - White Paper

Benefits

• Microsoft SCCM 2007 is an improved OS deployment experience with

shortened image deployment timelines

• Each HP Driver Pack is structured for the OSD of Windows

Before You Begin

Have the following items before you begin the Microsoft SCCM 2007 operating

system and driver deployment process:

• Microsoft SCCM 2007 Management Console installed and connected to the

network. For more information on installing SCCM 2007, visit Microsoft’s

website at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680397.aspx.

• A basic understanding of PXE configuration and OSD using Microsoft

ConfigMgr 2007. For more information on OSD in Microsoft ConfigMgr 2007,

visit Microsoft’s website at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/bb632767.aspx.

• Either a Windows OS image provided by Microsoft or a custom image created

by your company

• An HP Driver Pack for each managed HP client system

Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 Utilizing Microsoft

SCCM 2007 and an HP Driver Pack

The Configuration Manager 2007 console (ConfigMgr 2007) is the primary

interface in Microsoft SCCM 2007 for change and configuration management for

the Microsoft platform. The following sections describe how to use Microsoft

ConfigMgr 2007 to deploy Microsoft Windows and HP drivers on HP business-

class products. HP system applicable drivers are delivered in a single package

called the HP Driver Pack in order to simplify the OSD process. HP Driver Packs are

available on the HP website at

http://www.hp.com/support.

Importing WinPE Drivers to a Boot Image

To deploy Microsoft Windows on a system, ConfigMgr 2007 requires that

Windows-based storage and network drivers are added to the WinPE boot image,

a Windows Pre-installation Environment boot image. This paper uses the WinPE

3.0 drivers downloaded from the HP website at http://www.hp.com/support.

After downloading the WinPE Driver Pack, perform the following steps to import

the drivers into the WinPE boot image in ConfigMgr 2007: