Windows 7 RC Image Deployment
The document attached to this blog provides instructions for implementing a basic image-based deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 RC0 operating system.
Migrating an operating system is a major project that requires careful planning and guidance. To ease the process, Microsoft has provided a number of tools for automating Windows 7 deployments including the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). For Windows 7 Microsoft has released the Beta version of WAIK version 2.0.
There are many guides available on the internet, but we felt they all miss some steps. Therefore we decided to share our internal documentation.
The process for our deployment scenario includes
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Prepare an USB stick with "Windows PE"
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Prepare a master installation
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Capture an install image
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Manually deploy an image on a single machine with ImageX
The document attached does not cover automated deployment of images on multiple computers using tools as ADS.
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