Provisioning & OSD Changes with LANDesk 9.5 SP1

There are many improvements and changes to Provisioning/OSD with LANDesk 9.5 SP1.  Some of the changes and useful links are listed below.

Useful links:

• Changes to Provisioning Action Handlers in 9.5 SP1
• Hardware Independent Imaging (HII) Changes)
• HII Driver Management
• http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-27542WinPE Versions in LANDesk 9.5 SP1
  • The WinPE version is updated to 4.0.
  • WinPE 4.0 requires Windows 8 drivers (NDIS 6.3).
  • WinPE 4.0 does include a generic NDIS driver so a specific NIC driver may not be required.
  • For additional information on managing drivers in LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 please see How to Add Drivers to WinPE for LANDesk 9.5.
  • Client devices must have processor support for PAE/NX/SSE2 in order to boot into WinPE 4.0.