DeployR Community

A free, community-supported MDT replacement for OS deployment and bare-metal provisioning

DeployR Community

DeployR Community is a free bare-metal provisioning solution and task sequence engine built to simplify and modernize OS deployment. It is designed as an alternative to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) if you are looking for a community-supported solution.

Delivering faster, easier, and more flexible OS deployments through a simplified UI.

  • Community support through Reddit
  • User-initiated task sequence (LTI)
  • Built-in PXE capabilities
  • USB support (offline or boot media)
  • Manual driver management

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DeployR Community vs MDT

✅ Fully supported 🎗️ Limited support ❌ Not provided / supported
FeatureDeployR CommunityMDT
2Pint Software support❌❌
Community support✅✅
User initiated task sequence (LTI)✅✅
USB support (offline media or boot media)✅✅
Manual driver management✅✅
Automatic OEM driver management✅❌
ARM64 support✅❌
User/technician driven installation menu management (UDI)🎗️🎗️
Built-in PXE capabilities🎗️❌
Device role/application role management❌🎗️

DeployR Community features

Windows 10 and 11 image deployment

DeployR can deploy Windows 10 and 11 images (either your own custom images or standard Microsoft ones, both x64 and ARM64 architectures). It can inject drivers (either that you provide and manage, or that are automatically downloaded from the OEMs) and install applications to fully provision the device.

Or if you prefer, it can hand off the process to Windows Autopilot so that it can take care of apps, scripts, and other configuration via Intune.

Automatic OEM driver management

DeployR identifies the make and model from the device firmware and downloads the matching driver pack directly from the OEM, using a catalog that 2Pint keeps updated. The "Inject drivers from cloud" step runs in Windows PE, so the disk and network drivers needed to resume the sequence are in place before deployment continues.

It also works as a safety net: add it alongside your own driver packs with a simple condition, and DeployR will only reach out to the cloud when it has no local drivers for that model.

Built-in PXE capabilities

DeployR Community includes the 2PXE server component of 2Pint Software's iPXE Anywhere, a network booting solution built on the open-source iPXE bootloader for ultra-fast booting over any type of network and faster operating system builds and rebuilds. It runs standalone, so there's no dependency on Configuration Manager or Windows Deployment Services.

iPXE downloads boot images over HTTPS rather than the TFTP used by traditional PXE, which is both faster and more secure, and it boots devices with Secure Boot enabled. Whether you're provisioning new devices, handling break/fix, or rebuilding after a malware incident, the process is the same: boot, select a task sequence, deploy. DeployR takes it from there — OS imaging, driver injection, and app installation.

USB support (offline media or boot media)

Where PXE booting isn't practical — remote sites, restricted networks, the occasional one-off rebuild — DeployR can generate media with a single PowerShell command. Standalone media carries the task sequences and all the content items they need, so no communication with the DeployR server is required. Caching media includes a selection of content and authenticates back to the server, so anything not already on the media is downloaded on demand.

Tag your content items to control exactly what gets included, write it to a USB device, or create an ISO to boot virtual machines.