Kerwin F Medina

US Patent:

20090319766, Dec 24, 2009

Filed:

Jun 19, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/141925

Inventors:

Daniel Ward - Renton WA, US
Shantanu Sardesai - Sammamish WA, US
Kerwin Medina - Sammamish WA, US
Ravikiran Chintalapudi - Bothel WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/00
G06F 15/177
G06F 9/445

US Classification:

713 2, 717178

Abstract:

A method of provisioning an unknown computer system is disclosed. The method includes detecting a computer system to be provisioned, determining that the computer system is unknown to a configuration management system, and identifying a global identifier and a digital certificate to be used to provision the computer system. The method further includes communicating the global identifier and the digital certificate from a network based boot strap server or from boot strap media to the computer system prior to loading an operating system onto the computer system.