Image Deployment

Images

• Windows10BaseImage - Windows 10 base image Creating, Installing Salt setup, etc for CSCF
• CscfGradImageNotes - CSCF Grad Image Notes as well as Research Images
• ImagesByMotherboard - Index of Images by Motherboard

Image Deployment Tools

Image Deployment using Clonezilla

• CSCF Standard deploy software is now Clonzilla*
• CloneZilla - clonezilla deplyment tools

Technical Tips

Advanced Format Drives

*Note: there are new 4K sector drives called Advanced Format Drives this may cause issues (read as failure to make working images) on system with these drives.
There are also alignment optimization considerations that can impact system performance if not addressed (read as speed reduction upto half of expected).*

SSD Solid State Disks

• Settings required for SSD - SolidStateDisks

CSCF Images

• CSCF maintains a number of pre-built images for deploying to School PCs. An annotated list can be seen here: CscfImagingWorkstation

RETIRED tools

Image Deployment using Acronis

See: ImageDeploymentAcronis for Acronis Imaging Notes

Image Deployment using Ghost

See ImageDeploymentGhost for Ghost Image Deployment See ImageNamingRules for naming rules

Image Deployment using PowerQuest and the CS Application Server

• Formerly, CSCF used PowerQuest. Those notes can be seen here: ImageDeploymentPowerQuest (no longer used)