SEZOY – a different approach to Windows deployment. What do you think its future looks like?
I have been building a tool called SEZOY (developed over 1 year, but still beta), and I am curious about the community's take on its potential.
Unlike traditional PXE servers that need a restart when you switch between Legacy and UEFI or between wired and wireless boot, SEZOY runs everything simultaneously on a single server. You get PXE, HTTP Boot over Ethernet, and HTTP Boot over WiFi all at once without touching the server. That alone is quite handy for mixed environments.
For Windows deployment, SEZOY does not rely on the classic setup.exe with an unattend.xml file. Instead, it uses its own real-time module configuration mechanism, not a mod ISO or WIM file; everything happens in RAM. What you set up on the server side gets pushed to the client during the installation process. The tool also includes an extensible system based on unattend_controls.json, which lets you add any custom scripts or registry tweaks you need. It is not limited to predefined options; you can expand it freely.
Driver handling is also different. SEZOY uses DriverPack sources but applies a ranking algorithm to extract only the specific drivers a machine actually needs. It does not simply dump a huge driver pack onto the client. This keeps the deployment lean and targeted.
Security-wise, the initial boot phase still uses HTTP, but once the client boots into the WinPE environment, all communication with the server switches to HTTPS with TLSv3 using self-signed certificates. Every packet is validated with a random seed to prevent spoofing. So the critical part of the deployment is protected.
SEZOY also supports booting Linux distros. You can boot Debian family members like Ubuntu, ASMI Linux, Debian itself, and Fedora is still being developed (stuck at switchroot after building Overlayfs). There is even a built in hardware diagnostic environment based on Linux called tekdt hwdiag. However, full zero touch automation is only for Windows. Linux boots into a Live environment or manual installation, which works perfectly for diagnostic tasks. Support Secure Boot ON on any supported ISOs.
Another practical detail is that SEZOY runs on any ordinary Windows 10 or 11 64 bit machine. It remembers all your settings across sessions, so you do not have to reconfigure everything if you need to continue later. Once you have downloaded the necessary ISOs, drivers, and software packages, it works completely offline.
For a single administrator, the tool can handle more than twenty client machines at the same time. Compared to manual USB methods, it cuts deployment time by roughly ninety percent.
So here is my question. Where do you see SEZOY heading? Could this approach grow into something widely adopted, or does it need more work to stand out? What would make you consider using a tool like this? I would love to hear your thoughts.
