Managing out-of-box experience (oobe) configuration at a client information handling system

Abstract

Managing a contextual OOBE configuration at a client information handling system, including detecting a boot experience at the client information handling system; in response to detecting the boot experience, verifying an active network connection at the client information handling system; in response to verifying the active network connection, providing a request to a server information handling system for a configuration file specific to the client information handling system; receiving, in response to the request and from the server information handling system, the configuration file; in response to receiving the configuration file: ceasing the boot experience; parsing the configuration file, including extracting values of the configuration file and creating an answer file with the extracted values; executing system preparation at the client information handling system; rebooting the client information handling system; performing the boot experience at the client information handling system utilizing the created answer file.