Upgrading with Specops Deploy/OS

SPECOPS DEPLOY / OSUpgrading with Deploy/OS

Heather Pacan and Johan Söderström Product SpecialistsSpecops Software

Welcome• Heather Pacan

– Heather.pacan@specopssoft.com• Product Specialist at Specops• 16 Years Windows Infrastructure Experience• Graduated from Drexel University• Dancer and World Traveler• Karate Mom

WHOAMI

Welcome• Johan “SodaStream” Söderström

– Johan.soderstrom@specopssoft.com• Product Specialist at Specops• 15 years of experience with deployments• Like traveling to other countries• Technology geek• Love food and wine • Bikes

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Today’s Agenda

• Windows 10 Update• Upgrading Specops Deploy• Upgrading Client OS• Upgrading Client Applications• Q&A

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Upgrading Specops Deploy

• Prerequisites–MDT and ADK

• Image server• Deployment Server(s)• Deploy\APP• Client Side Extension - Demo

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Upgrading your Client Machines

• Options to think about–Boot Image–Hardware supported – drivers?– Import new Base OS – then capture–Default or Reboot and Reformat–Default Options: Saving/discarding user data–Group policy–Applications

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Boot Image and Drivers

• Download the latest drivers from the manufacturers website

• Create new OS folders in your driver structure under Model.

• Remember – WINPE may use a different OS version of the driver then what you are upgrading too. Update your WINPE drivers too.

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New Operating System

• Always import new base OS into deploy first – both x86 and x64 if you are going to support both.

• Then you can add multiple capture images• Use Group Policy to filter your images– Always test first with a test OU or GPO filtered

by a security group

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Reformat or Reinstall???

• Default reinstall – uses CSE to boot into WINPE and saves user data–After reinstallation of OS (or upgrade) all of the

profiles are copied back–Must have Deploy Client Side Extension on the client

machine–Use for local profiles only

• Reboot and Reformat – uses a PXE boot and does not save any user data.

Clean up your profiles first!

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Applications

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• Test/Evaluate which application work with new OS and which ones need a new version– i.e. Flash and does not work in Windows 8-10

• Create the new packages for the new software.• Update targets to include operating system

version in target criteria

Clean Up Time

DEPLOY/OS

• Remove Old Driver folders• Images (cautiously)• Packages/Deployments