Best practice or correct steps to use ZTI solution for SCCM OSD?

Question

Dear Experts,

I've been using Windows MDT for OSD for years and very new to OSD in SCCM but we would like to hand on this new solution.

I've been reading MS articles: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/automate-oobe https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-cm/prepare-for-zero-touch-installation-of-windows-10-with-configuration-manager

These seems quite complicated to me as I feel lost what might be a better solution for us. We use only one primary site with everything configured in one single server. I'm trying to achieve what MDT has helped, to skip all the OOBE UIs, configure and standardize Windows settings like region, language, startup items, fonts, remove some unwanted apps that are not related to our work environment, install applications silently, everything was ready in MDT.

My quesion is, what can I start with SCCM to get above? I wanted to integrate MDT to SCCM, do I still need to go over all the OOBE settings via WSIM or we can just take advantage of MDT then skip most of the new steps in SCCM?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Coming from MDT, you should consider integrating with ConfigMgr. You can practically use the same customsettings.ini file with some minor tweaks. That should take care of the OOBE steps that you want covered. As for other steps like installing apps and all, you may have to add them in the TS as their own steps.

Answer 2

Hi @Eaven HUANG ,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

Agree with @Rahul Jindal [MVP] . It's recommended to integrate MDT with SCCM for your scenario. You can take advantage both of them and use answer file to skip OOBE during a task sequence. For more information, please refer to:

Create a task sequence with Configuration Manager and MDT

Integrate MDT with SCCM

USE UNATTEND.XML TO SKIP WINDOWS 10 OOBE DURING AN SCCM TASK SEQUENCE

Thanks for your time. Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Simon

---

If the response is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it. Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Answer 3

Hi,

I am currently standing by for further update from you and would like to know how things are going. If you have any questions or concerns on the recent information I've provided you, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Best regards,

Simon

Answer 4

And get familiar with UDI in SCCM, it is great!