Re: Steady State and SCCM (or SMS)

Hi there Todd,

I was interested in something similar, I was looking for a way to use SMS to
push Office 2007 to machines that would be running Steadystate as opposed to
Deepfreeze in our environment, and posted on the steadystate form. I got
this response back from Sean Zhu from Microsoft: (hope this helps - we've
decided to not use steadyState for now, and stick with Deepfreeze and
re-evaluate when Steadystate is more mature and ready for larger
environments)


Note below from MS:



Hi, currently we are not able to centralize installing programs or making
changes automatically via SteadyState. The most efficient way to deploy
software on large network environment is to use server products with
centralized software installation tools. Please understand that Windows
SteadyState is designed for small network environment like home user and
kiosk. Without using server product and deployment tools, we may need to
access each computer and install software. Therefore, I'd like to recommend
some related server products information below:



Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sol...doverview.mspx



Desktop Deployment for Midsize Businesses

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/des...e/default.mspx



You can also contact with our deployment desktop newsgroup when you
encounter any issue during the deploment:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...oyment.desktop



"Todd Miller" <ToddMiller@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4687E4A-E814-45A6-9636-E5B5BF1D7C46@microsoft.com...
>I have been reading about steady state and am pretty interested in using
>this
> in a couple of areas. Is Steady State SMS "aware?" I mean, if I have
> drive
> protection turned on, and push out a new application or an application
> update
> out using SMS, won;t steady state just dump the changes at the next
> reboot?
> In reading the handbook, it seems like that is what would happen. On the
> otherhand, I wouldn't think that Microsoft would design a system like
> steady
> state that didn't interface correctly with its enterprise deployment
> software. Does SCCM "just work" with Steady state or is it complicated?
> I
> would still like to push out updates like .NET 3.5, QuickTime, Acrobat
> Reader
> upgrades, etc to these machines. Will I be able to do that if I
> encorporate
> steady state into our lab computers?