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Deployment Server Now Does Hardware Independent Imaging! 

Sep 29, 2008 11:26 AM

I recently installed Deployment Server 6.9 SP1 Beta and noticed that the Distribute Disk Image task now has the option "Use DeployAnywhere hardware independent imaging"!

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With this option enabled, I can deploy a single image to computers with different mass storage devices without even preparing it with sysprep beforehand. No more mess-work!!

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Migration User
Mar 26, 2009 09:55 AM

From what I gather, it is still only able to replace the HAL, NIC drivers and Mass Storage drivers.

They are hoping to have the ability to inject other device drivers in a future release.


Migration User
Mar 20, 2009 06:04 PM

Will we be able to do this using linux automation?

Migration User
Mar 10, 2009 03:23 PM

 Can anyone comment whether DeployAnywhere can be used to install the other device drivers too? Such as video, audio, etc.? To fully replace a regular HII process, it needs to do these things, correct?

Pascal KOTTE
Mar 06, 2009 04:13 PM

I got a few customer in production for now. Using "DeployAnyWhere" to inject latest HP laptop, with success. No need to rebuild the source image. Great! I wonder if the WinPE preboot should use this driver repository also? Because, it seems not. So you have to update the preboot with the additionnal drivers in the same time we have to add in the DeployAnyWhere repository. Am I wrong?

Migration User
Jan 08, 2009 11:15 PM

UIU has a very extensive set drivers. However, it adds 2GB to your image size, which slows down image deployment. Also, you need to re-create your image any time you want to update the supported hardware.
DeployAnywhere does not increase your image size and since it installs drivers after image deployment, you do not need to recreate your image to support new devices.

Migration User
Dec 18, 2008 11:06 AM

...Universal Imaging Utility? It's from Binary Research, I think they're the guys who invented Ghost and it creates a single image.

Migration User
Oct 01, 2008 01:55 PM

The new SATA controllers. Since we never disable SATA, in order to gain the performance benefits. The chipset drivers, even through injection are driving me crazy.
I'm going to end up re-building the base image of one of these instead, with NLite preloading all the SATA controller drivers in place of F6.

Migration User
Oct 01, 2008 09:16 AM

What issues are you runing into with the laptops? We are going to get them in soon also.

Migration User
Sep 30, 2008 11:09 PM

Actually, HIIS is over-complicated. I never understood why they feel like you need to create their hardware "classes". What matters is what devices are on the computer, not what "class" the computer is.
With a little coding, they could replace HIIS and HII Tools with a simple checkbox. I hope they do. But in the meantime, you can count on me taking advantage of this feature to make HII Tools implementation as simple and headache-free as possible.

ianatkin
Sep 30, 2008 09:01 AM

I think this is a straight technology transfer from Ghost Solution Suite.
If so, there might be some limitations to using it -such as driver support being oddly limited to NIC and Masstorage.
From looking around at the comments on Ghost's DeployAnwhere, it doesn't look like complete product yet, so there is still space for the likes of CondorMan and Altrinsics.
Kind Regards,
Ian./

Migration User
Sep 30, 2008 08:35 AM

I'd be interested to see exactly what this feature will include. HIIS has some tools that I know that simple checkbox can't cover. Including building hardware classes and automatically collecting driver patches and building hardware classes.
That's not to say that SP1 won't include a huge list of other jobs and tasks to do those things also. We'll just have to wait until the final release of SP1 before we know for sure.

RobertLundsten
Sep 30, 2008 07:01 AM

This could be a really cool feature! Wonder what happens to HIIS now?
Robert Lundsten
Asterio
http://www.asterio.se

Migration User
Sep 29, 2008 02:23 PM

Any idea when SP1 is slated to become "Non Beta"? I'd realy like to utilize this feature as soon as possible. Especially with the new Dell Lattitude E series, becoming such a nightmare with our HII.

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