OSDCloud – Image devices without need of infrastructure WIFI and ZTI

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Introduction

OSDCloud is the most hyped tool I have yet seen in the community. Now does it live up to it.? YES indeed. We needed this kind of solution to simplify daily operations where we want a device fast up and running e.g., after repair of a broken hardware component. Now OSDCloud is not THE solution but PART of the solution.

This is a complete guide on how you can run OSD over WIFI and at the same time automate the whole process once it has been started.

IT TAKES 15 minutes to reinstall to a fully functional device

Requirements

Blog post part 1
Internet
Github account

Table of Content

Get newest OSDCloud
Get WinRE and inject your custom language
Create Github ZTI file
Inject drivers to WinRE

Get newest OSDCloud

Start powershell as elevated

Install-Module -Name OSD -force

Just making sure I am on the right version to continue with this post. You need at least this version or higher.

Get WinRE

New-OSDCloud.template -WinRE -Language da-dk -SetAllIntl da-dk -SetInputLocale da-dk -verbose

TIP: you can add more languages here by typing e.g. -Language da-dk,es-es,fr-fr

It really takes no time at all to create the workspace, it is just a copy of the Template from above.

New-OSDCloud.workspace -workspacepath C:OSDCloud -Verbose

Create GitHub ZTI file

Now we would like to automate the whole process, so we don’t have to type anything once WIFI has been connected. For us not to rebuild the ISO or USB stick every time we want to change a simple thing in our Zero touch deployment file, we simply put the configuration online.

Go to your GitHub repository, dropbox or whatever online storage you have with access directly to your file.

Mine is here

This sample has been borrowed from David’s demo script

Copy these lines

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Starting OSDCloud ZTI”

Start-Sleep -Seconds 5

#Change Display Resolution for Virtual Machine

if ((Get-MyComputerModel) -match ‘Virtual’) {

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Setting Display Resolution to 1600x”

Set-DisRes 1600

}

#Make sure I have the latest OSD Content

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Updating OSD PowerShell Module”

Install-Module OSD -Force

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Importing OSD PowerShell Module”

Import-Module OSD -Force

#Start OSDCloud ZTI the RIGHT way

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Start OSDCloud”

Start-OSDCloud -OSLanguage da-dk -OSBuild 20H2 -OSEdition Enterprise -ZTI

#Restart from WinPE

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Restarting in 20 seconds!”

Start-Sleep -Seconds 20

wpeutil reboot

Add file

Create new file

Paste in the code you copied from this blog

Give the file a name like Win10-Enterprise-20H2-DA-DK.ps1 as this is what the configuration will deploy for you.

Commit the file

Enter the file

Click RAW

Copy the URL

Inject drivers, ZTI and custom wallpaper to WinRE

Now we need to make the changes to support both hardware WIFI and customizations like wallpaper and WebPSScript parameter.

Open elevated powershell

I have downloaded a wallpaper and added it to the workspace C:OSDCloud. Created a folder called Wallpaper and placed it there.

In this line we will use the RAW URL copied earlier.

Edit-OSDCloud.winpe -workspacepath C:OSDCloud -CloudDriver Dell,Wifi -WebPSScript https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmelkersen/OSDCloud/main/Win10-Enterprise-21H2-DA-DK.ps1 -wallpaper “C:OSDCloudWallpaperwallpaper.jpg” -Verbose

Tip: you can also get more drivers into your WinRE image by typing -CloudDriver Dell,Nutanix,VMware,HP,Wifi and if you need custom that can be done too -DriverPath T:TempWinPEDrivers. The more you put into it the bigger file you get.

Now it is time for us to test it. If you have a fairly new USB you can then run

New-OSDBoot.usb -workspacepath C:OSDCloud

save-OSDCloud.usb