Did your last OS migration go as smoothly as you expected? Were your users satisfied with their individual upgrade experiences? Negative responses to these important questions are often why we are called in to help organizations and the inspiration behind this book.Using real-world scenarios and our collective experience on dozens of migration projects, you learn how to introduce automation into your OS deployment solution and build a self-serve migration platform for your users to upgrade Windows on their own schedules, without ever involving the help desk. You learn how to incorporate 1E solutions to augment Configuration Manager and how to tweak your task sequence for multiple build types and situations. In this book, you learn how to: Design a System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager environment for up to 50,000 users with minimal server hardware - Implement the following solutions from 1E: ActiveEfficiency, Nomad, PXE Everywhere, and Shopping - Utilize enterprise peer transfer for OS deployments, user state migration, PXE, software deployment, and software updates - Build the perfect Windows 8.1 reference image using MDT 2013 - Deploy Windows 8.1 using Configuration Manager and Nomad for OS refreshes, replacements, and new installations - Enable users to self-shop for software and operating systems using a common web-based interface