You will need to configure and/or verify that you have a working Network Access Account called CM_NAA. This will be the account that is used to make a network connection from Windows Pre-Execution (WinPE) to a distribution point to download an image.
Follow the procedures detailed on pages 403 thru 404 in your text book.
In this task you will configure the Distribution Point to support Pre-Execution. During this configuration Windows Deployment Services (WDS) will automatically get installed if it is not already installed.
Follow the procedures detailed on pages 404 thru 405.
To assist us in creating an automatic deployment, we must install Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013.
Follow the procedures detailed on pages 405 thru 408 to install and configure MDT.
Install MDT
Create Logs Share
Integrate MDT into ConfigMgr
Boot Images
Boot images are what computers will "Network Boot" to prior to receiving a new operating system (via an Install Image). The boot image will have a small pre-execution environment component that will be just enough to allow a computer to boot from it and still be able to access the network, storage, and run scripts to perform an install. With ConfigMgr 2012, boot images can be modified to support the installation process. For a detailed list of these components, please refer to the table on pages 409 thru 410. We will implement the PowerShell component in this task (which is the last component listed in the table).
Follow the procedures detailed on pages 410 thru 413.
Customize the Default Images
Create Custom Boot Images
Distribute Custom Images
To install an operating system onto a client computer and totally overwrite the entire system, including user data, would not be a welcome thing - unless there are definite reasons to do so. To preserve user's data (or the state of the user), you need to configure the state migration point. This will allow you to store the state data gathered during the OS deployment process by the User State Migration Toolkit. This data is encrypted and can be configured to be removed after a certain number of days.
Follow the procedures outlined on pages 414 thru 415.
Install and Configure State Migration
We will create a custom 8.1 image that we will deploy, but first we need the source files.
Follow the procedure outlined on pages 415 thru 417. Note: we will deploy the Windows 8.1 Professional with Update that is located in the ISOs folder on the S: drive. I copied the entire ISO to my setup folder on CM01 and then extracted the source files to E:\Sources\OSD\OSInstall\WIn81Upd1x64Ent.
Download and Add Windows 8.1 Source to an Operating System Image.