One use case would be if you we're imaging a large number of new devices at once, from a build room or staging area, and you wanted to minimize the number of touch points during the imaging process. Having it boot via PXE first, would allow for some greater automation.
I would script a process to reset the boot order at the end of imaging, however, to move the NIC lower in the device list. Jerry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SCCM FUN Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 08:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Re: Do I need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? Last question, so why would you ever put PXE as 1st boot order? Is there any time when it should be 1st? Thanks for the replies, it's starting to make sense. ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Bradnan, Jerry <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 11:07 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Re: Do I need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? I agree John. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Marcum Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 09:37 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Re: Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? I wouldn't ever put PXE first in the boot order. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SCCM FUN Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 8:47 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] Re: Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? When reading some of the blogs it says you need to set your NIC boot order on NIC's to have PXE boot at the top of the order. If this isn't needed when reimaging a machine that is already an SCCM Client (like i discussed earlier) what's the need to have PXE 1st in boot order? Thanks ________________________________ From: SCCM FUN <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:52 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] Re: Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? Awesome, thanks to everyone who answered, very helpful. ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Jason Sandys <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:10 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] Re: Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? No, PXE is not needed for this scenario (see Mike Murray's previous reply). You are correct that the boot image is staged to the local system when a task sequence deployment is kicked off via software center. The system then reboots into this staged boot image. Also, PXE is never required for OSD. J From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of SCCM FUN <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [mssms] Re: Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? So if I have an SCCM client and i want to send OSD TS as available so user can kick off the rebuild, PXE is always needed? I thought when they kicked it off from software center, it copied something down locally so when the machine reboots it "gets" to SCCM and doesn't need PXE? I thought PXE was only needed for bare metal installs and not rebuilding current machine that is already SCCM client? Am i wrong about this? Thanks ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Bradnan, Jerry <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:20 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? After the initial PXE Boot and OS file copy, it no longer uses PXE. It's the same process for USB media. It boots using the USB media, but after the OS install starts, the USB device is not needed. You would use PXE to do the initial file copy and network connectivity. If you do not use PXE, then you would need a USB boot device, or some other process to boot the system for bare metal install of the OS. Thanks, Jerry From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SCCM FUN Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 14:41 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Do i need PXE to OSD clients that already have SCCM client? I know its a weird question, but I'm confused in regards to OSD and PXE. If i have WDS/PXE setup and I deploy OSD TS to a current SCCM client when the machine reboots does it do anything with PXE or are all the files copied to the hard drive in the background while the machine is running? Does it uses those files to boot/image the machine? If it just uses the files copied onto the hard drive, is there any need for PXE? Thanks
