SC1 Posted May 6, 2019 Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 Is there any additional documentation on the Push Platform Pack (independent of imaging) feature? I see that it is mentioned on pages 82-83 of the user guide, but i'm not finding anything else beyond that. Does this boot the machine into a PE environment, or does this run in windows? Is there any control over rebooting? Is there any reporting of success/failure, or real time status of the deployment? Is there any way to control bandwidth usage of this feature? Can I integrate this with SCCM to leverage SCCM bandwidth management? Can it leverage Branch Cache/BITS or other technology for bandwidth management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Harris Posted May 6, 2019 Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 SmartDeploy won't restart a client following a driver update. There's not a real-time update, but you can look at the dism.txt file in C:\Platform where the drivers are copied. That file can tell you which drivers were installed, and if there were any that failed to install. As far as bandwidth management; that would need to be managed outside of the console, as we do not have that build into the product. Any remote actions like image/app/driver deployments have to be initiated from the console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC1 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 So driver updates would happen completely within windows, and only BIOS/firmware updates would trigger a reboot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Harris Posted May 6, 2019 Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 I may have spoke too quickly there. A restart may be required it the driver installation requires it. But Windows should prompt whichever user that a restart is required, and prompt to do it or defer. Things like BIOS updates and certain other things included in driver packs require a script to install. Anything like that in a driver isn't going to be applied when updating drivers via the console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC1 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 So do I need to create custom driver only packs, or will it just skip the BIOS/firmware/scripted updates in the existing packs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Harris Posted May 6, 2019 Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 Yes, it will skip them automatically do you do not need to edit any packs or create your own. (Unless you want too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC1 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2019 So if i uncheck the defer option will it reboot automatically if required, or just patiently wait for someone to see a reboot prompt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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