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Version 2.0 of the PowerShell-heavy OSD Frontend Released
Developed by Daniel Ratliff, PowerShell OSD Frontend helps eliminate the majority of the backend tasks for configuring and then deploying operating systems by giving the process a friendly face.
Rod Trent
March 17, 2014
1 Min Read
The first release was met with huge approval, and now version 2.0 builds on the original release's success.
Developed by Daniel Ratliff, PowerShell OSD Frontend helps eliminate the majority of the backend tasks for configuring and then deploying operating systems by giving the process a friendly face. Powering the entire solution is a set of PowerShell scripts.
Here's what it does:
Prompts for authentication to your domain
Displays basic computer information such as Make, Model, NIC, etc.
Prompts for computer name, with a few samples listed
Default computer name is WK and the machines serial number
For VMWare virtual machines, computer name is VM and the authenticated user
Scans your site server for existing device records
Utility to format disk
Utility to delete ConfigMgr records
Utility to specify source computer for data migration
Features added in version 2.0:
New tabbed display
Tooltips
Customizable logo and icon (just replace OSDLogo.png and Powershell.ico)
Management of ConfigMgr unknown computer records, delete records, search for records, and show task sequence deployments (my personal favorite, showing the list of deployments before you click continue is a major time-saver. Until the product team hopefully adds that functionality.)
Bullet list as needed
Drop down to choose timezone
Migration support
Specify computer name to migrate from (can be used for side by side migration, application mapping, etc)
Specify user name to migrate from (can be used for side by side migration, User-Device affinity, etc)
Specify user to add to local admin
Button to quickly open smsts.log with CMTrace (a favorite among our techs)
Stand-alone media support (not sure why these two cause the Frontend to freeze for SA media, but they do)
AD prompt to authenticate is skipped
Confirmation prompt is skipped
Button to restart the computer
Confirmation prompt after clicking continue
Requirements:
WinPE 4.0+
PowerShell 3.0+
.NET Framework 4.0+
Read more about it and grab the download: PowerShell OSD Frontend 2.0!
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