General settings of a project


This tab provides access to the general parameters and settings of the selected project. Some of these parameters can be modified. Be aware that modifying a parameters might require a partial or full rebuild of the project.

Parameter

Description

Name

This field shows the name of the selected project.

Supported BIOS Type

The type of BIOS mode supported by the project, that is, if it supports legacy as well as UEFI deployments or only one of them. Only the setup mode supports projects valid for legacy and UEFI at the same time.

Re-build required

This field displays if a full or partial re-build of the project is required before it can go online. This might be the case after modifications such as the addition of drivers to the project have occurred.

Build Status

This field displays the current status of the build. If any other status than OK appears in this field, the current project can not be deployed to the targets for installation.

Last Build Date

This field displays the date and time at which the last build of the currently selected project finished.

Cache Location

This parameter allows the user to manually select the partition where the cache is downloaded, or specify a path. It may be a driver letter, or System or Automatic . The default value is Automatic, which selects the partition with the largest - and writeable - free space available.

Type

This field displays the deployment type which the project contains, possible values are Windows Vista/Server 2008 Setup, Windows XP/Server 2003 Setup, Deployment by Installation, Customized Deployment, Deployment by WIM Image and Capture by WIM Image .

Delete Cache

Defines if and when the downloaded material is deleted on the client. The following values are available:

  • Never : The downloaded cache is never deleted and thus always available to the user if the deployment succeeds. This may be used for local system recovery, especially if using a setup installation.
  • On Success : The downloaded cache is only deleted if the deployment is successful, to reclaim the disk space. In case of a deployment failure the cache is not deleted and the user may access it for debugging purposes, especially if using the do not reboot option in the project parameters and perform manual operations.
  • Always : The downloaded cache is always deleted, on success and on failure of any type.

Description

This is a free text field that contains any type of description and information that is pertinent to the project

Use Model Drivers

The OSD Manager automatically selects and copies the relevant driver folder based on the machine model name during the installation (Setup as well as Sysprep).

Architecture

This field indicates the type of architecture for the OS deployment, that is, the architecture of the WinPE image launching the setup program. The possible options are 32-bit for x86 and 64-bit for amd64 Windows installations.

Capture or Deployment Disk

This field displays the drive letter on which the new operating system is installed on the target devices or on which it is installed if a capture of an existing system is to be done by the selected project.

Online

This value indicates if the project was a build and the files required to install and reboot the device are available, that is, the image files, the boot file, the PXE files, the unattended files, and so on. Possible values are Yes, the build process finished successfully and the necessary files were published, and No, the necessary files are not yet published and available. Only one project can be online at a time.

Operation after Installation

This field provides the list of possible actions which can be executed after the installation of the operating system has finished on the target. The possible values are Reboot, Shutdown and None. This option is not applicable to the Setup mode.

Scheduled Date

This field displays the date and time that defines when the project build operation is to be launched.

Disable Automated Driver Detection

If selected, the automatic driver detection is NOT performed during the project deployment.

Creation Date

The date and time the currently selected project was created for the first time.

Last Modification Date

The date and time in the user-specified format at which the last modification occurred to the selected object.

Notes

This free text field can contain additional information concerning the selected object.

 

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