Supported Operating Systems and Hard Disk Configurations for Operating System Deployment
Updated: May 14, 2015
Applies To: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP2, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1
Use the information in this topic to identify the operating systems and disk configurations that support the capture, creation, and deployment of operating system images by using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
Supported Operating Systems
All operating systems listed as supported client operating systems under Operating System Requirements for Configuration Manager Client Installation are supported for operating system deployments with the following exceptions:
Clients that use the mobile device client.
Windows XP Embedded
Windows Storage Server 2003
Windows Storage Server 2008
IA-64-based architecture computers
The following operating systems do not support the Apply operating system from an original installation source option in the Apply Operating System Image task sequence step. These operating systems must be captured by using a reference computer before being deployed to the destination computer:
Windows Embedded for Point of Service 1.0
Windows Embedded for Point of Service 1.1 with SP3
Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009
Windows Embedded Standard 7 with SP1
Windows Embedded POSReady 7
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
Windows XP Tablet PC SP3
Windows Thin PC
Supported Disk Configurations
The hard disk configuration combinations on the reference and destination computers that are supported for Configuration Manager operating system deployment are shown in the following table.
Reference computer hard disk configuration |
Destination computer hard disk configuration |
|---|---|
Basic disk |
Basic disk |
Simple volume on a dynamic disk |
Simple volume on a dynamic disk |
Configuration Manager supports capturing an operating system image only from computers that are configured with simple volumes. There is no support for the following hard disk configurations:
Spanned volumes
Striped volumes (RAID 0)
Mirrored volumes (RAID 1)
Parity volumes (RAID 5)
The following table shows an additional hard disk configuration on the reference and destination computers that is not supported with Configuration Manager operating system deployment.
Reference computer hard disk Configuration |
Destination computer hard disk configuration |
|---|---|
Basic disk |
Dynamic disk |