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Lite Touch<\/strong> is a Windows deployment tool designed to require limited interaction during the deployment process. It allows you to select the OS version, additional software packages (if needed), and local Administrator password. Lite Touch takes care of the rest, including joining the machine to the Microsoft Entra ID domain, installing software, and applying policy settings.<\/p>\n A Lite Touch USB boot media is required to boot UEFI systems to the Lite Touch environment. To create a Lite Touch USB boot media, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n \n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t\n \t\t \n \t\t\t\t\tThis guide assumes the machine that is being imaged supports a UEFI boot environment. \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n \t\t<\/p>\n \n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lite Touch is a Windows deployment tool designed to require limited interaction during the deployment process. It allows you to select the OS version, additional software packages (if needed), and local Administrator password. Lite Touch takes care of the rest, including joining the machine to the Microsoft Entra ID domain,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[272,278],"ht-kb-tag":[317],"class_list":["post-10897","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-software-and-licensing","ht_kb_category-for-it-professionals","ht_kb_tag-lite-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/10897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30005,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/10897\/revisions\/30005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Requirements<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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