Abstract: A method for installation of a native OS on a host using non-native utilities. A native OS image is deployed on a native target client system using a non-native distribution server. The OS image is converted and packaged into a non-native format and provided to the target client. The OS image is unpacked and de-converted back to a native format and deployed on the target client. The client agent runs System Imaging Utility to acquire the OS image from the reference partition. The created OS image is pushed to the non-native file sharing system, and then the SCCM Proxy is asked to create an OS image package and a task sequence in the SCCM for this package. When the OS image is placed into the SCCM, the client agent reboots back to the reference partition.