Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
If you want to migrate data in a Deploy Task Sequence you'll need to have the USMT 4 package ready, so let's create it now so that we can access the necessary migration files in our Deploy Windows 7 X64 task sequence.
On your SCCM server in Windows Explorer, browse to C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\
Right click on the USMT folder and choose Copy,
select your sources folder (mine is on D:\) and paste the USMT folder in sources\os so that it's path is sources\os\usmt
In the ConfigMgr Console, select Software Library, Application Management, Packages, right click and choose Create Package.
fill in the details about the package, call it USMT version 4 and point to the UNC path of our newly copied files, \\sccm\sources\os\usmt
for Program Type select Do not create a program
Complete the Wizard
Step 2. Distribute the USMT package to our Distribution Points
Select the USMT package and click on Distribute Content in the Ribbon
for Content Destination, click on Add, select Distribution point, select our DP,
click through the rest of the wizard
Step 3. Import the captured Windows 7 X64 wim file
Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
In the Software Library, Operating Systems section of the Configmgr console, click on Operating System Images, you'll note that it is empty because we havn't imported any images yet. Right click and choose Add Operating System Image
browse to the UNC of where we captured the image in Part 7 and select the captured wim file
eg: \\sccm\sources\os\captures\windows7x64.wim
fill in some details about the image
click through the summary, progress to completion
Step 4. Distribute the image to the Distribution points
Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
We now need to distribute our imported image to our distribution points. Select Our Windows 7 Enterprise X64 image and in the ribbon above click onHome and then Distribute Content
when the Distribute Content Wizard appears, click next
to specify the destination, click on add and select distribution point
select our Distribution Point from the list
the DP appears selected
click next through summary/progress to completion
Step 5. Create the Deploy Task Sequence
Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
Now that we have added our captured operating system image to Configmgr, and distributed it to our dp's we want to create a Deploy Task sequenceto Deploy the image. In Task Sequences, right click and choose Create Task Sequence.
choose to Install an existing image package
fill in some details about the image and click browse and select the X86 boot image, click next to proceed
now select the Windows 7 image by clicking on browse and set an administrator password, uncheck Partition and format the target computer before installing the operating system if you want to use hardlinking for User state migration, otherwise files cannot be stored locally
for the Configure the Network step, we want to join the domain so click on browse beside join a domain
and now we need to specify the user that has permissions to join the domain, i use the DomJoin user just or this task (create the user and delegate them enough permissions to add computers to the domain)
I'm not specifying an OU in this step, you can, but don't select the Computers Container if you do...
for the Install the Configuration Manager client step click on browse and select the client package from defintion we created in the last part
click next and for State Migration, select our USMT 4 package
change the setting to Save user settings Locally (this will mean we can use Hard Links)
for Include Updates select All Software Updates
and click next through to completion (we are not installing any applications at this point).
Step 6. Create a Deploy Windows 7 X64 collection
Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
In the ConfigMgr console, click on Assets and Compliance, select Device Collections, click on Create Device Collection in the Ribbon
fill in the collection details, call it Deploy Windows 7 X64, limit it to All Systems
click next through the wizard, we will not add any computers to it yet, and we will not create any queries.
Step 7. Create Collection variables
Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
We want to set UDA variables on our collection, so that a UDA user gets assigned as the primary user of computers deployed in this collection. We are doing this to show you that you can set a primary user to a device based on Collection Variables.
We could do this in other ways, for example using task sequence steps to set the variables or prestart commands or a frontend HTA, I will come back to this subject later, but for now, let's just see it in action by specifying the two variables below.
Right click on the Deploy Windows 7 X64 Collection and choose Properties
click on the Collection Variables tab, click on the yellow startburst and add a new variable called SMSTSAssignUsersMode, set the value to Autoand remove the checkmark from Do not display this value in the Configuration Manager console
do the same again for another variable called SMSTSUdaUsers, specify the user as domain\user
Step 8. Deploy our Task Sequence
Perform the following on your SCCM 2012 server as SMSadmin.
To make the task sequence available to computers we need to Deploy it. In Software Library, select our Deploy Windows 7 X64 task sequence and choose Deploy
select our Deploy Windows 7 X64 collection and click ok to the warning
change purpose to Available (this keeps it optional, Required is Mandatory ! and dangerous as a result), place a checkmark in Make available to boot media and PXE
click next through the task sequence, until distribution points, by Default it will be set to Download content locally when needed by running task sequence, you can get this to change to Access content directly by editing each package referenced in the task sequence and setting the Data Access tab for each package, place a checkmark in Copy the content in this package to a package share on Distribution points
click next through the wizard to completion.
In our next part we will create an Application, and create a deployment type for that application to only install if the Primary User is True for that device (User Device Affinity), we will then add a computer to the new collection, PXE boot it and watch the process from start to finish.
