Users Guide

Introduction

This document describes the activities that you can perform with Dell Client Integration Pack for Microsoft System

Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager (DCIP for

Configuration Manager.)

NOTE: DCIP 3.1 is not backward compatible with older versions of Microsoft System Center Configuration

Manager. It is recommended to use DCIP 2.0 with Configuration Manager 2007.

What Is New

This release of DCIP for Configuration Manager supports the following features:

Feature Description

Remote Wipe Remote-format your client's hard disk.

iAMT 9 The Intel AMT vPro OOB Management supports iAMT 9

Configuration

Manager 2012

SP1

DCIP 3.1 is supported on systems running Configuration Manager 2012 SP1

Windows 2012 DCIP 3.1 is supported on systems running Windows Server 2012

Windows 8 Deploy Windows 8 on supported client systems

Key Features And Functionalities

Feature Description

Configuring

Windows Pre-

Installation (PE)

environment

This feature enables Configuration Manager to configure and push the customized operating

system image on the client system using the features available on DCIP. For more information

on configuring the Windows PE environment, see Creating Dell Windows PE Boot Image.

Creating and

Importing Dell

Client Driver

Packages

This feature enables Configuration Manager to configure and push the customized driver

packages onto the client system. For more information on creating Dell client driver packages,

see Creating Dell Client Driver Packages.

OMCI Integration This feature enables Configuration Manager to use the features available on Dell OpenManage

Client Instrumentation version 8.x (OMCI) such as remote management applications, accessing

managed node information, manage client state, receiving alerts for client events. For more

information on OMCI integration, see Importing OMCI.

Client

Configuration

Toolkit 2.x

Dell Client Configuration Toolkit (CCTK) is a packaged software offering that provides BIOS

configuration capability to Dell client systems such as OptiPlex, Latitude, and Precision in an

operating system present environment. The feature helps configuring the BIOS for Dell client

systems using the CCTK Self Contained Executable (SCE) package.