Best practice or correct steps to use ZTI solution for SCCM OSD?

[Eaven HUANG]

Dear Experts,

I've been using Windows MDT for OSD for years and very new to OSD in SCCM but we would like to hand on this new solution.

I've been reading MS articles: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/automate-oobe https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-cm/prepare-for-zero-touch-installation-of-windows-10-with-configuration-manager

These seems quite complicated to me as I feel lost what might be a better solution for us. We use only one primary site with everything configured in one single server. I'm trying to achieve what MDT has helped, to skip all the OOBE UIs, configure and standardize Windows settings like region, language, startup items, fonts, remove some unwanted apps that are not related to our work environment, install applications silently, everything was ready in MDT.

My quesion is, what can I start with SCCM to get above? I wanted to integrate MDT to SCCM, do I still need to go over all the OOBE settings via WSIM or we can just take advantage of MDT then skip most of the new steps in SCCM?

Thank you very much.

[anyweb]

Don't take this the wrong way, but consider looking at Intune and Windows Autopilot, as that is where Microsoft is investing time, money and effort today. SCCM is great but as it's a 'legacy' on-premises based system, it's not getting the focus it used to, so if you want to get 'current' then look at modern management of devices, using Intune and Windows Autopilot

if you cannot move to the cloud, then we can focus on trying to assist you with your goal,

best of luck.

[Eaven HUANG]

3 hours ago, anyweb said:

Don't take this the wrong way, but consider looking at Intune and Windows Autopilot, as that is where Microsoft is investing time, money and effort today. SCCM is great but as it's a 'legacy' on-premises based system, it's not getting the focus it used to, so if you want to get 'current' then look at modern management of devices, using Intune and Windows Autopilot

if you cannot move to the cloud, then we can focus on trying to assist you with your goal,

best of luck.

Dear friend, thanks for your comments. Personally I would like to study more about Intune and Autopilot but in reality, we can't move to the cloud for cost and security concerns. I would still need to take advantage of SCCM to manage our devices. By the way, I was actually on MDT for over 5 years and very new to SCCM just now:)