Users Guide

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Downloading DTK
This section describes some of the procedures necessary to begin the deployment process, including:
• Downloading and unzipping the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) components, including a comprehensive matrix of DTK components.
• Setting up a directory structure to facilitate a successful deployment, including a list of the supporting components that are not
included with DTK, but are needed to use DTK.
• Setting up an optimally congured source system.
• Conguring supported RAID controllers.
Extracting DTK components on systems running windows
DTK components are provided in a self-extracting zip le at www.dell.com/support. The self-extracting le can be opened on any
system running Microsoft Windows operating system. By default,
DTKX.XWINPE- XX.exe les are extracted to the root directory of
your local hard drive, C:\. You can change this location by giving a dierent path when extracting the les, but it is recommended
that you keep the DTK default directory structure if you plan to use the sample deployment scripts provided with DTK.
1. Download the DTK le DTKX.X-WINPE-XX.exe from www.dell.com/support and save it on your system.
2. After the le downloads, double-click the le. The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit for WindowsPE screen containing
the product and download information appears.
3. Click OK.
4. Click Unzip.
By default, les are unzipped to C:\. You can unzip the DTK components to your local hard drive and then copy them later to a
network volume, or you can change the installation path to an available network share. For example, you can unzip the les
directly to the network share (for example, Z:\) that you plan to use in the deployment process.
DTK components on systems running windows
Workstation is the system on which the DTK components are extracted.
Source system is an optimally congured system from which the system settings are captured.
Target system is the system on which the settings captured from the source system are replicated.
DTK utilities for 64-bit systems are located in the following directories:
• Utilities: \Dell\x64\Toolkit\Tools
• Sample scripts: \Dell\x64\Toolkit\Template\Scripts
• Sample conguration les: \Dell\x64\Toolkit\Template\Congs
The directory \Dell\x64\Toolkit\Systems is a placeholder that can be used for all system information that is captured using sample
scripts and tools (for example, the system specic BIOS) and Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) conguration les used by
the DTK utilities for conguring a system). For more information on the deployment directory structure, see Setting Up A Directory
Structure For Deployment.
Additionally, DTK contains a batch le, extract.bat, which can be used to extract the CAB les of winpe5.x, and winpe 10.x folders.
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