Brady 0 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 I'm absolutely new to imaging and I'm having to find a workaround for this issue. I have the console running on a VM in Hyper-V so I'm unable to 'pass-through' the thumb drive to the console machine. I need to create bootable media because I don't intend to spin up a new machine, install the deployment agent, and THEN push the deployment. I need to image a machine from boot. What's the best option (and steps) to creating a deployment package WIM and then creating a bootable thumb drive that's going to be able to utilize that WIM? I'm hoping I can get a faster response on here than I am by emailing support because I'm stuck here and burning time on my demo license. thanks very much Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aaron@Shared 0 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Brady, I wish I had an answer for you but you cannot. However, you can install SmartDeploy to another workstation, create your image and then write it to USB. That is what I do if I need to boot from USB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brady 0 Posted February 9 Author Report Share Posted February 9 That's true. I had the original instance installed on my work laptop, but in an effort to centralize the solution so multiple technicians in multiple locations could deploy images, our Rep suggested we spin the main console up on the server. W/out having any experience with imaging solutions, it's difficult to come up with 'outside the box' thoughts because I don't have any foundation to even theorize from, but I thank you for the prompt response, Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SmartDeploySupport 0 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Hi all, Aaron is correct - USB passthrough to a VM is tricky and often difficult to make work as a practical matter. Easiest to just install another SmartDeploy console instance onto a physical computer. SmartDeploy is licensed per deployed VM, so if you do decide to purchase the software, you are free to install the console on as many computers as needed. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to support@smartdeploy.com. Glenn SmartDeploy Support Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KB9GXK 0 Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 I use VirtualHere to manage this. In my case, the system running SmartDeploy is across the building, but I use the USB ports of my local desktop. Should work between VM and Real computers also. It is free for 1 USB Port connection. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brady 0 Posted February 10 Author Report Share Posted February 10 Thanks very much for the tip!! I'll definitely look into this as a possible solution. Is it possible for multiple end points to be able to do this to a single server? I'll lay out our scenario and maybe there's another way I'm just not seeing.. 3 technicians in different states will be deploying machines, but we want to keep a centralized repository of images and answer files so when changes are made, we only have to do it in one location. I don't know if there's other facets to this that I need to plan for, but we really are totally new to imaging. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KB9GXK 0 Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 @Brady I believe you can if you run the server component on each technician PC. I would recommend purchasing the server for each technician if you don't want a pop-up on the server to keep showing. It's $49/server PC Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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