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Windows Installation and Update Troubleshooting

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This book helps you understand, troubleshoot and repair issues with local Windows installations, automating the OS deployment and configuring updates via WSUS and Windows Intune. When tasked with deploying Windows operating systems, there can seem to be an overwhelming amount of tools and techniques to learn to master this process. Whether you are installing a new Windows operating system locally, or looking to deploy a customized build to 1000s of devices in your network, you will need to understand how to do this successfully and reliably. This book steps up through local installations and upgrades through to Lite Touch deployments using WDS and MDT, and then to Zero Touch installations using Microsoft System Center. Management of updates to Windows is also covered, using both on-premises technologies and cloud-based services. In this book you’ll learn how to decide between local installation types, perform upgrades, use automation techniques to deploy images and how to maintain Windows throughout the operational phase of the lifecycle.
What You'll LearnHow to install Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 locally
How to perform upgrades locally on a Windows PC, including migrating data and user profiles
How to deploy operating systems using Lite Touch techniques
How to deploy operating systems using Zero Touch technologies
How to maintain on-premises and devices not connected to the company network by using WSUS and Windows Intune
Who This Book Is For
IT pros including IT support personnel and system administrators. This book will also be of interest to Windows experts and power users.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Windows Installation Methodologies and Tools
Abstract
With the release of Windows Vista in January 2007, Microsoft introduced a number of new technologies that can be used for deployment; each subsequent version of Windows has improved many of these tools and introduced some new ones.
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Chapter 2. Installing Windows Locally
Abstract
The majority of PCs already have Windows preinstalled when you purchase them. Most users will never need to install Windows and will continue to use the same version of Windows for the whole lifetime of the device.
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Chapter 3. Upgrading the Windows Client Operating System
Abstract
Up until Windows 10, Microsoft historically released several new operating systems per decade. While most PC owners keep the preinstalled version of Windows that came on the system, a large percentage of owners seek to upgrade to the latest version. Most users who upgrade do so to take advantage of the latest functionality that the new system offers. Users who purchase new equipment with the latest operating system can benefit from both additional software functionality and new hardware advancements.
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Chapter 4. Automating Windows Deployment with Lite Touch
Abstract
For many years, systems administrators have sought to achieve what was always seen as the holy grail of desktop deployment: the gold image. So what is a gold image, why seek it, and why is it perhaps almost foolish to embark on such a quest?
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Chapter 5. Automating Windows Deployment with Zero Touch
Abstract
In this chapter, we will be exploring how System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) can be used to take automation of deployments to the highest possible level— that of zero touch. Simply put, this means that we can deploy an operating system and all of its applications by centrally controlling the process, without requiring any input from the end user or a technician (which would have been the case with lite touch).
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Chapter 6. Updating and Maintaining Windows
Abstract
Operating systems today are more complex than ever before. The sheer amount of lines of code that goes into making an operating system (OS) runs into the millions. There is going to be the occasional bug that needs fixing, but updates are more than just bug fixes. Modern operating systems receive updates that cover a range of different areas, which will be explored in this chapter.
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Chapter 7. Managing Windows Updates with Intune
Abstract
Today’s modern workplace is very different than that which existed ten to fifteen years ago. At that time, users would typically use a desktop PC or laptop, but would mostly work from the same office each day. Occasionally, they would visit a customer, but for the most part administrators had pretty good fingertip control over the computers they managed. Typically, client computers would be domain joined, and administrators enjoyed a high level of management control using services like Active Directory and Group Policy.
Chris Rhodes, Andrew Bettany
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Windows Installation and Update Troubleshooting
verfasst von
Chris Rhodes
Andrew Bettany
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Apress
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4842-1827-3
Print ISBN
978-1-4842-1826-6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1827-3