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Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance, an excerpt from Windows 7 Resource Kit, by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team at Microsoft: from chapter 3 to chapter 12. Deployment Platform, Planning Deployment, Testing Application Compatability, Developing Disk Images, Migrating User State Data, Deploying Applications, Preparing Windows PE, Configuring Windows Deployment Services, Using Volume Activation, Deploying with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Compared to Windows XP, Windows 7 introduces numerous changes to the technology you use for deployment. Additionally, Windows 7 improves and consolidates many of the tools you used for Windows Vista deployment. The Windows AIK 2.0 ( Automated Installation Kit ) includes most of these tools. Others are built into the operating system. The Windows AIK 2.0 fully documents all of the tools these chapters describe, including command-line options for using them, how they work on a detailed level, and so on. The Windows AIK 2.0 is not included in the Windows 7 media. By comparison, Windows XP has a file called Deploy.cab that includes its deployment tools. Instead, the Windows AIK 2.0 is a free download from the Microsoft Download Center. The following features are new for Windows 7 deployment: Windows System Image Manager, Windows Setup, Sysprep, Windows Preinstallation Environment, Deployment Image Servicing and Management, ImageX, Windows Imaging, DiskPart, User State Migration Tool. There are terms unique to Windows 7 deployment and MDT 2010 ( Microsoft Deployment Toolkit ). Understanding this terminology will help you better understand the deployment content in this book and the resources it refers to. The answer file: an XML-based file that contains settings to use during a Windows 7 installation. An answer file can fully automate all or part of the installation process. In an answer file, you provide settings such as how to partition disks, the location of the Windows 7 image to install, and the product key to apply. You can also customize the Windows 7 installation, including adding user accounts, changing display settings, and updating Windows Internet Explorer favorites. Windows 7 answer files are commonly called Unattend.xml. The Catalog file: a binary file that contains the state of all the settings and packages in a Windows 7 image. When you use Windows SIM to create a catalog file ( Windows SIM is the tool you use to create and configure Windows 7 answer files ), it enumerates the Windows 7 image for a list of all settings in that image as well as the current list of features and their current states. Because the contents of a Windows 7 image can change over time, it is important that you recreate the catalog file whenever you update an image. The Deployment share: a folder that contains the source files for Windows products that you install. It may also contain additional device drivers and application files. You can create this folder manually or by using Windows SIM. In MDT 2010, the deployment share, called a distribution share in previous versions of MDT, contains operating system, device driver, application, and other source files that you configure with task sequences. Master computer: a fully assembled computer containing a Master installation of Windows 7 that you capture to a Master image and deploy to destination computers. The term source computer is also commonly used to refer to this. Task sequence: a sequence of tasks that runs on a destination computer to install Windows 7 and applications and then configures the destination computer. Technician computer: the computer on which you install and use MDT 2010 or Windows AIK 2.0. This computer is typically located in a lab environment, separate from the production network. Windows image file: a single compressed file containing a collection of files and folders that duplicate a Windows installation on a disk volume. Windows image files have the .wim file extension.
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