Overview

As you all aware, there is no concept of OS Deployment with Modern Management. Modern UEM solutions expect on OS installation on the device whether it is a Smartphone, Table or PC.

For Dell PCs there are 3 major scenarios:

• Standard Windows Installation
• Dell Ready Image (formerly known as Generic Image)
• Dell OS Recovery Image

OS Installation scenarios

Standard Windows Installation

Dell Applications (blue boxes on the right) may depend on system configuration. For example Dell PremierColor will only be pre-installed when an PremierColor Panel is build in etc.

Dell Ready Image

This is a clean Windows installation that only contains OS and drivers. Nothing else. The Ready Image is provided as an add-On by our Dell Configuration Services.

Dell OS Recovery Image

You can start a OS Recovery via the F12 Boot Menu during POST. This feature will use Dell BiosConnect & Dell SupportAssistOSRecovery to install a fresh copy of a Dell Windows install.

Conclusion

All three scenarios may impact your scripting efforts and therefore you should take them into consideration. At least you should clearly state which scenario you are addressing with your script. There may be additional scenarios depending other OS Recovery use cases and methods (e.g., using built-in Windows Recovery options etc.) that would cause different behavior that you may need to consider in your scripts.

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Author(s):

Mesut Kaptanoğlu