Deployment scenarios and network considerations

During the capture process, the task sequence follows the steps, determining the variables, making decisions whether to continue on error, and so on, all according to the task sequence created in the share. We've gone over the task sequence engine, settings, and variables, but we have not yet discussed the scenarios on the share itself, deployment strategies, replication for enterprise environments, and so on. We'll cover some of these scenarios now.

Firstly, deployment in most enterprises is considered a dangerous event. I've seen several misconfigured environments that started running SMS or MDT-based task sequences on production systems. User data is lost, days of productivity are lost, and IT careers are altered in a negative way. One such incident that is helpful to dissect occurred at a healthcare provider in the United States.

SMS advertised a deployment task sequence over an agent that told the agent to format the existing hardware and...