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Our current means of deploying machines is to mirror the nvme drive from a master drive before installing it in a PC.

We are deploying windows on machines that will go to customers. As such, aad (and therefore autopilot) are out of the question.

I'd like to be able to deploy a machine after the nvme has been fitted, and was therefore looking at pxe boot.

What are my options? I have tried netboot.xyz, but not worked out how to use that to write an iso or image to a disk. I've looked into autopilot, but can't find any guides that don't use domains.

Daniël van den Berg
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    Have you looked into using Clonezilla? All of these imaging solutions have one drawback - your licensing status would depend on your license key type, but you can alleviate it with scripting. – Peter Zhabin Jun 16 '23 at 21:07

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Try Serva. Single exe PXE server that allows you to either deploy Install images or just capture your golden image and deploy it to as many PCs you want on a network

Pat
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After being pointed to Clonezilla Live by Peter Zhabin, I ran into a discussion mentioning https://fogproject.org/. I've turned my NVME drives into virtual machines, and registered those by MAC address. FOG can now issue a command to re-image those, allowing me to easily update my images.

Changing one setting makes PCs in the network, that boot into PXE mode, automatically go to a screen which allows me to select which image needs to be deployed.

Daniël van den Berg
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