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Plan it – Practice it.

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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Microsoft-Deployment-
Toolkit-Lite-Touch-Screencast

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The Deployment Guys Blog
◦ http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys
Michael Niehaus Blog
◦ http://Blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/
Windows Team Blog
◦ http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/11/08/pa rt-4-choosing-and-image-strategy-and-building-windows-7-systemimages.aspx
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
◦ http://blogs.technet.com/msdeployment
MDT 2010
◦ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx

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Schuff at myITforum.com
◦ http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jscheffelmaer
MDT Wizard Editor
◦ http://mdtwizardeditor.codeplex.com
WMI Administrative Tools
◦ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=643
0F853-1120-48DB-8CC5-F2ABDC3ED314&displaylang=en
DeployWindows.Net
◦ http://deploywindows.net
/ myITForum.com
◦ http://www.myitform.com