Standard Operating Environment

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<p>There are many <a href="/facts/Windows/bwhAhuSL">Windows</a> deployment guides and tools available from <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a> and other vendors. Many businesses endeavor to build their own SOE solutions using the Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) solution accelerator or <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Deployment_Toolkit/5UmvSDRS">Microsoft Deployment Toolkit</a> (MDT).  However, some do not have the capability to build all features in one single SOE and their processes often include documented manual configuration steps.
</p><p>SOEs on <a href="/facts/Mac_OS_X/Y93vVpTm">Mac OS X</a>, <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a>, and other <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a>/<a href="/facts/Unix-like/YAKrAxzd">Unix-like</a> systems can typically be made simply by creating and deploying disk images. This can be achieved using tools such as <a href="/facts/Disk_Utility/gcyDN1tx">Disk Utility</a> and <a href="/facts/Dd_(Unix)/Ksttbob5">dd</a>. Whereas deploying a disk image originating from a system with non-identical hardware will often result in boot failure with Windows, the process is generally achievable on Unix systems with the caveat that the systems must be of the same <a href="/facts/Computer_architecture/tHtwxgR2">computer architecture</a> and drivers will need to be installed on the image for all the possible hardware configurations. Since Apple does not have third party computer manufacturers usually only hardware add-ons are a concern with respect to drivers. On Linux most hardware with kernel support can be auto-detected. <a href="/facts/Init/0NuCuc1g">Boot scripts</a> can be used for automated post-deployment configuration.
</p><p>There are also a number of vendor-specific SOE systems for various Linux/Unix-like distributions. For Solaris the use of jumpstart scripts is more frequent to ease the automation of setting specific parameters for each system. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux this is typically done by using kickstart scripts, there are specific products to create and manage an SOE like <a href="/facts/Red_Hat_Network/756Gfudz">Red Hat Network Satellite Server</a> which avoid the disk space usage and maintenance difficulties of managing disk images.
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<li id="fn:1"><p>"MOE - Managed Operating Environment". ATIX AG. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2014-08-28. MOE (Managed Operating Environment) uses an SOE as a base, but programms and drivers are used from a central location. [...] MOE [...] allows adjustments and changes by the user, without affecting the functionality of the environment. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140927190801/http://www.atix.de/en/solutions/moe-managed-operating-environment" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140927190801/http://www.atix.de/en/solutions/moe-managed-operating-environment</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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