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Configuration Manager–Thin Clients and Windows Embedded Discussion

Recently has some internal discussions around these two items.  I wanted to post the information for others to find so they don’t have to “dig” for it as we had to.  The specific questions at hand were:

1) For a thin client, can we push software to a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 system while leaving WPF lock in place?

2) Can we use OSD to deploy the HP Thin State Client (Linux) to a system?

Here are some key points around these topics:

• The supported ConfigMgr client platforms are at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161860.aspx.
• Quest has a client for Unix Systems.
• Johan Arwidmark - Deploying Ubuntu 8.04.1 using WDS (Windows Deployment Services)
• For ConfigMgr 2007, the XPe topics are actually documented right in the ConfigMgr 2007 product documentation. Start with http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb932159.aspx.
• Customers will also need to use XPe’s Target Designer to build their XPe image with all necessary pre-requisites to install and run ConfigMgr client. The following download contains the XPe macro component for ConfigMgr client. If the customer is not authorized by their hardware vendor to build their own images, they will need to request this be done by their hardware vendor.
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/3/17339602-a5c3-4767-adc2-c6cfa0b3b77c/SCCM2007Client_Macro.exe