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 Floppy disks  Winnt /b  Answer files  Remote Installation services  Ghost (imaging)  ImageX and MDT2010

Windows 9X Windows ME Windows NT4 Windows 2000 Windows 9X Windows ME Windows NT4 Windows 2000 Windows Vista SP1, SP2 Windows 7 Only clean install Clean install In-place upgrade Clean install Migration In-place upgrade Clean install Migration Windows XP Windows Vista RTM Windows XP Windows Vista RTM Windows Anytime Upgrade enables you to upgrade to a higher edition of Windows 7

 Thick – great for quick and dirty – minimal opportunity for customization. One-offs  Thin – great for quick imaging, need extensive modifications after installation. Excellent in highly engineered/automated environment  Hybrid – What many use

 NEW – no data or settings (state) to save or migrate  REFRESH – same computer, state to migrate  REPLACE – new computer, state migrated from previous computer  UPGRADE – in-place upgrade to existing computer, state stays same

 LTI ◦ Lite-Touch Installation – kicked off manually and user answers wizard questions  ZTI ◦ Zero-Touch Installation – kicked off automatically, no prompts ◦ Requires System Center Configuration Manager

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 MDT 2010 is a significant upgrade from MDT 2008 ◦ Still supports Windows XP and above ◦ Drops support for SMS 2003  MDT 2010 adds full support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 and latest deployment tools: ◦ Windows Automated Installation Kit 2.0 ◦ Windows PE 3.0  New way to construct an image ◦ USMT 4.0  New hard-link and offline migration capabilities  MDT 2010 makes these changes transparent

◦ Replaces the ubiquitous Win98 boot disk ◦ Includes a GUI with Notepad, Task Manager ◦ Includes a full network stack  Built-in support for a plethora of network cards ◦ Version 3.0 includes Win7 / R2 code base ◦ Included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 (aka WAIK 2.0)

 Imagex – Microsoft’s Ghost Buster ◦ Creates and deploys file-based images of entire drive partitions  Unlike sector-based images (CD, DVD, GHO) ◦ Images stored in Windows Image Format (WIM) ◦ Uses single-instance file storage ◦ Supports three levels of compression ◦ Utility also mounts and manipulates WIM files

 Demo ◦ Booting into WinPE from flash drive ◦ Capturing an image  imagex /capture c: x:\image.wim 1 “description” ◦ Managing partitions with Diskpart ◦ Deploying an image  imagex /apply x:\image.wim 1 c:

◦ Windows Automated Installation Toolkit ◦ Used to edit Vista and higher unattended installations

 DVD unattended install  Creates Autounattend.xml answer file  Placed in root of bootable Vista DVD, USB flash drive or Floppy.  Will give you a unattended deployment

◦ Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool  Replaces several previous tools, adds new enumeration capabilities ◦ Tool used to make offline edits to WIM ◦ Apply updates, install drivers, install features ◦ Scriptable – Automate updating of your image library

 Sysprep ◦ Improved in Windows Vista & 7 ◦ Still necessary!  Storing multiple “images” in the same image file provides advantages

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 The Deployment Guys Blog ◦  Michael Niehaus Blog ◦  Windows Team Blog ◦ rt-4-choosing-and-image-strategy-and-building-windows-7-system- images.aspx rt-4-choosing-and-image-strategy-and-building-windows-7-system- images.aspx  Microsoft Deployment Toolkit ◦  MDT 2010 ◦

 Schuff at myITforum.com ◦  MDT Wizard Editor ◦  WMI Administrative Tools ◦ 0F DB-8CC5-F2ABDC3ED314&displaylang=en 0F DB-8CC5-F2ABDC3ED314&displaylang=en  DeployWindows.Net ◦ / /  myITForum.com ◦