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Hi All, I am a total noob on SCCM, came from the world of MDT. I just received a new project to work on: Upgrade all existing 1000 machines from Vista to Win 7. I have been using MDT to manage and update Vista image for OS deployment. Our SCCM 2007 was set up and been used for Win 7 deployment for a pilot group of 20 people. The person who managed SCCM 2007 left the company months ago. This SCCM is now kinda become my responsibility. Things are great until I got a new project: upgrade every machine in the company. Things are not as bad when you only manage OS deployment to 20 machines. I can key in a MAC address for each deployment. Now, I find that is “impossible” for 1000 machines. A co-worker of mine told me that before the Win 7 pilot, they used to do OS deployment through a boot menu. First, they press F12, boot from PXE. Then, a menu (like a BIO menu, black background, white text) will come up. The technician can select whatever image they want to load on the computer. That is what I want to do for this Win 7 upgrade for all 1000 machines. I just don’t want to key in 1000 MAC addresses. I have a feeling that someone will key in the wrong MAC address and computer will get wiped after a restart. As you can see that I am really a noob to SCCM. MDT will retire after Win 7 is out to everyone. I know how to do it with MDT, but not with SCCM. I did use the guide Anyweb wrote about Win 7 deployment. I got that working, but putting a MAC address is still required. I tried to search on google. But I don’t even know what words to use. Does anyone know what am I trying to do?? Anyone knows how to do it?? Any step by step instruction? I am a noob noob on SCCM. Many Thanks!!