Hi,

As SCCM is called as zero touch deployment method for operating system deployment. So please help me to clear my below doubts

1.        How SCCM take care of backup & restore of entire HDD, if SCCM does not take care of backup & restore of entire HDD then how we can say it is zero touch deployment method?

• Changed type Parag_M Monday, December 30, 2013 6:37 AM

we can use USMT tool with SCCM to decide what we need to backup. I think good planned infrastructure will always have users data on file servers rather than on user's local system. please refer below few URLs for more information:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj127984.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560793(v=ws.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh397289.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meacoex/archive/2013/02/19/migrate-windows-xp-to-windows-7-using-sccm-2012.aspx

Does anyone have backed up entire Hard disk using USMT? If yes then please suggest how to do it.

Or please let me know what strategy we recommend/use against backup and restore while deploying operating system using SCCM.

It is not good practice to use USMT for a complete system backup. The correct method is to capture the drive to a WIM file using the ztibackup.wsf script.

Loads of resources out there on this.

Can you please help with ztibackup.wsf script?

Or how can we use it for complete HDD backup?

I wrote a basic post on this a while back.

MDT: Backup, Capture and P2V explained