Welcome
OS Deployment
BigFix OS Deployment, which is part of the BigFix Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy new workstations and servers throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution saves time and money, enforces a standardized and approved image, and reduces risks associated with non-compliant or insecure configurations.
Managing Images
The Manage Images and Drivers node includes tasks to capture, import and manage images for deployment to targets.
Patching Windows Capture Images
The Image Library Dashboard enables patching of Windows capture images using cumulative updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog (.msu files). A band-aid button in the Actions column initiates the patching process, creating a new image while preserving the original. If a new servicing stack is required, it must be applied first, and users can copy settings from compatible reference images to maintain profiles and templates.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 11 Lifecycle Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Lifecycle documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Lifecycle.
BigFix Platform
BigFix Query
Lifecycle overview
BigFix Lifecycle is single-agent, single-console technology that provides near real-time visibility into the state of endpoints.
Lifecycle guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Lifecycle guides in PDF format:
Software Distribution
Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
OS Deployment
BigFix OS Deployment, which is part of the BigFix Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy new workstations and servers throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution saves time and money, enforces a standardized and approved image, and reduces risks associated with non-compliant or insecure configurations.
- Product overview
- Configuring the OS Deployment Environment
  To start working with OS Deployment, run the configuration Fixlets and tasks listed in the Setup Node.
- Managing MDT Bundles and Deployment Media for Windows targets
  To perform OS Deployment of Windows operating systems, you prepare your deployment environment and resources using the Bundle and Media Manager Dashboard.
- Managing Drivers for Windows Deployments
  The Manage Images and Drivers node includes tasks to prepare and import drivers for deployment to Windows targets.
- Managing Linux OS Resources and Deployment Media
  You can import Linux OS Resources needed to create network boot media and to capture and deploy Linux images
- Managing Images
  The Manage Images and Drivers node includes tasks to capture, import and manage images for deployment to targets.
  - Capturing Windows Images
    When you capture an image, you are creating an image that can be customized and applied to other computers in your network.
  - Capturing Linux images
    You can capture a Linux system to create a reference image that can be deployed to bare metal targets.
  - Importing images
    The Image Library Dashboard allows you to manage images by importing, pre-caching, deleting, and modifying the metadata of your existing images.
  - Patching Windows Capture Images
    The Image Library Dashboard enables patching of Windows capture images using cumulative updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog (.msu files). A band-aid button in the Actions column initiates the patching process, creating a new image while preserving the original. If a new servicing stack is required, it must be applied first, and users can copy settings from compatible reference images to maintain profiles and templates.
- Upload Mode
  By default, the OS images are permanently stored in the BigFix root server.
- Reimaging
  Reimaging is the process of saving the user state on a computer, installing a new image on it, and then restoring the user state.
- Installing Windows 10/11 or Windows Server using in-place upgrade
  To upgrade your existing Windows systems to Windows 10/11 or Windows Server you can use the in-place upgrade fixlets.
- Bare Metal deployments
  You can install and manage BigFix for OS Deployment servers and create profiles for bare metal deployments.
- Monitoring Deployment Activities
  You can track and monitor all deployment activities in your Endpoint Management network.
- Maintenance and troubleshooting
  You can monitor deployment activities, correct exceptions and adjust configuration settings specific to your environment through dashboards and tasks available for these purposes.
- Setting up OS Deployment in an air-gapped network
  You can choose to configure your OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site in an air-gapped network.
- Deprecated and Superseded functionalities
  This topic lists the functionalities that are still present in OSD, but are deprecated.
- Create Ubuntu OS Resources manually
Remote Control
BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
Power Management
Use Power Management to control, monitor, and manage conservation policies in your deployment.
Server Automation
Server Automation provides powerful automation. You can use it to sequence automation actions in steps across multiple endpoints.
Profile Management
Profile Management is a WebUI-based feature of BigFix Lifecycle. It provides Security Administrators the capability to define and deploy security policies to Windows 10 and macOS devices.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM

Patching Windows Capture Images

The Image Library Dashboard enables patching of Windows capture images using cumulative updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog (.msu files). A band-aid button in the Actions column initiates the patching process, creating a new image while preserving the original. If a new servicing stack is required, it must be applied first, and users can copy settings from compatible reference images to maintain profiles and templates.

The Image Library Dashboard allows you to patch a Windows capture image that has already been imported with an applicable cumulative update from Microsoft Update Catalog (.msu files).

For the Windows capture image, a band-aid button is available in the Actions column.

It will start a panel where you can provide the file to use to apply a cumulative update downloaded from Microsoft Update Catalog (.msu files) to your capture image and the name of the image that will be created.

At the end of the patch activity, a new entry will be added to the image library referring to the new image while the original image will not be modified.

If the image to patch requires a new servicing stack to be applied before being able to apply the patch content, and the servicing stack is not included in the same cumulative patch, you must apply to servicing stack as first, a new image will be added to the image library containing the new servicing stack, and the cumulative patch can be applied on it.

The new image will not have any bare metal profile, reimage profile, and template on it but you can use the Copy Settings from... feature (see Copying configuration settings from a Windows reference image) to copy all the bare metal profiles, reimage profiles and templates from a compatible reference image, including the image it has been created from.

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