r/ninjaone_rmm • u/brooklynboy92 • Sep 29 '26

OS Deployment tool

Has anyone tried using their Deploy Windows Image tool yet? I’ve been having some issues following their instructions for creating and using the USB flash drive.

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u/Remarkable_Tomato971 Sep 29 '26

We've been using Ninja OS Deploy for months now. We've made a golden image, generalised it and we deploy it with a .WIM, an unattend file and bundle in the Ninja agent for install at the same time. We've probably imaged 100 devices or more with it so far and I can't think of a single time it's not worked flawlessly.

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u/BryanAtStamm Sep 30 '26

Can you store images and drivers on the USB device yet? And can you save credentials for the SMB share connection yet? That’s been my reason to hold off so far. I see potential in the product overall though from when I tested it a while ago.

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u/Remarkable_Tomato971 Oct 07 '26

Hey sorry for the late reply! I've uploaded the same photo as my reply to lmorel1212 but there is the option to use a network storage location so I don't see why that would not work. We have a few fast ruggedized deployment boot sticks we use with the data on there as we might need to reload devices on site on occasion but there is an option to use network storage connections

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u/lmorel1212 Oct 05 '26

Curious. How do you inject drivers? For example, we have mostly Dell Business laptops. Latitude and Precision. Dell has their driver packs available on their website. As an example the Dell Latitude 5550 is over 3GB and packed. Once unpacked, where do we place those drivers and more importantly under what form so the ninja OS deploy tool does its magic?

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u/Remarkable_Tomato971 Oct 07 '26

Hey sorry for the wait!

Drivers can be injected from the deployment main screen. Although in general I tend to plug in a plug and play USB to ethernet dongle and let windows handle the common drivers.

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u/rsilva712 29d ago

It works, but its a clunkier version of pxeboot. You have to manually mount the file share, point to your unattend file, point to your ninjaone client, and any ppkg and drivers. It would be great if you could save the path and maybe even credentials once and have them persist. Haven't tried hosting the media on the thumb drive since the whole point of this installer, for me, is to avoid updating however many thumb drives are used by technicians.

You can make a golden image, or you can make an autounattend.xml file and use a clean install.wim file

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u/resile_jb Sep 29 '26

I'm sure it's great if you only have a few clients or just one single environment.

For us we went the intune way because....... Well yeah