Using Task Sequence Catalog Items to Perform OS and Application Deployment
App Portal provides solutions to greatly reduce the operational overhead experienced by traditional OS deployment solutions and to enhance the end-user experience, making OS deployments self-service instead of administrator-driven.
With App Portal you can deliver new computer imaging, existing computer re-imaging, and replacement of computers through your enterprise app store by leveraging core OSD functionality in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Users initiate the migration/deployment by requesting a catalog item in the enterprise app store, scheduling the deployment around a time that is convenient for them. Users can easily migrate existing applications to the new system, and also have the option of installing additional applications during OS deployment. Users can also request task sequence catalog items to migrate existing applications and/or install additional applications to a computer, without performing an OS deployment or upgrade.
Information about performing operating system deployment by offering task sequence catalog items in the App Portal storefront is presented in the following sections:
For information about performing OS and application deployment using methods other than by offering OSD task sequence catalog items in the App Portal storefront, see Using App Survey, Clone/Migrate, and Support Tools to Perform Advanced Deployment Tasks.