Users Guide

Editing a task sequence
1 Launch the Conguration Manager Console.
The Conguration Manager Console screen is displayed.
2 In the left pane, select Software Library > Operating Systems > Task Sequence.
3 Right-click the task sequence that you want to edit and click Edit.
The Task Sequence Editor window is displayed.
4 Click Add > Dell Deployment > Apply Drivers from Dell Lifecycle Controller.
The custom action for your Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack is loaded. You can now make changes to the task sequence.
NOTE:
• When editing a task sequence for the rst time, the error message, Setup Windows, and Conguration Manager is
displayed. To resolve the error, create and select the Congurations Manager Client Upgrade package. For more
information about creating packages, see the Conguration Manager documentation at Technet.microsoft.com.
• Make sure that the Set RebootStep Variable step in a task sequence is enabled for any set conguration.
Adding diskpart clean to task sequence
1 In Task Sequence Editor, click Add > General > Command Line.
2 In the Name text box, enter Diskpart Clean as the name for the command line.
3 Select the input command line option diskpartclean.bat.
4 Select package Dell PowerEdge Deployment > Dell PowerEdge Custom Reboot Script.
Conguring task sequence actions
When you select PowerEdge Server Conguration from the Task Sequence Editor, the following tabs are displayed:
• Action Settings
• Variable Replacement
• Logs/Return Files
This section explains the Action Settings tab. For information about Variable Replacement tab, see Variable Replacement. For information
about Logs/Return Files tab, see Log/Return Files .
Deploying a task sequence on static IP networks
The task sequence deployment involves the following steps:
• Preparing the .CSV File
• Importing Targets
• Creating the Bootable Media for OS Deployment
• Using the Bootable Media for OS Deployment
Preparing the .CSV le
Update the sample CSV le located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Conguration Manager\OSD\Lib\Packages\Deployment\Dell
\PowerEdge\NetworkSetting\Samples\MACIPMap.csv by adding a row for each of the targets.
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Using the Dell EMC Server Deployment Pack on systems running System Center Conguration Manager, 2012 SP2, 2012
R2 SP1, 2012 R2, 2012 SP1, or 2012