@Obsolesce said in PXE Boot & Software deployment:

@gjacobse said in PXE Boot & Software deployment:

What is your preference on PXE Boot deployment and software deployment?

SCCM and Software Center seem to be a joke here. Although it could be the team responsible for managing it.

We have a tremendous amount of issues with PXE Boot deployments, not installing the right image and thus nothing is installed or installed right ( Office 365, Adobe, VPN software, etc).

If the agent isn’t right you delete from ADUC and SCCM and start over..

We are lucky if Software Center works,... some times.

Published software packages break on a regular basis, aren’t available to install due to GPO, and you can’t run it ( that my group has found) in an elevated state for applications the user doesn’t see; not all applications are published to everyone...

We use Intune for ~10k devices across a handful of countries and is working great for device and software deployment.

I agree with this. Intune is replacing SCCM functionality in the best way possible.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@coliver said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@Dashrender said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

You could deploy an image using FOG

While this was my initial thought as well, he has asked about doing this simultaneously. Which fog generally isn't "all at once go".

It kind of is...I was using FOG to do multicast imaging 7 years ago. We're talking 30-60 machines at a clip.

Sure it can do it but that doesn't mean that you should do it. It's about network performance and if you're not setup for it you'll encounter massive slowdowns

Mutlicast is the way to go. You can even do it over broadcast domains. It sounds like you didn't have multicast configured correctly? Even doing 60 machines we didn't see any network slowness associated with imaging.

The best line: There is little more terrifying than watching a 300K storage device launch a windows PXE installer.

It just blow my mind that people would trust Cisco with storage (or servers.) But a $300K storage device? Ouch. And one that installs anything it sees on the network by default? What is driving people to even talk to a networking company to be their SAN vendor?