Imaging and Deployment James O Neill Jamesone microsoft com http

Imaging and Deployment James O’Neill Jamesone@microsoft. com http: //blogs. technet. com/jamesone

What Will We Cover? Managed Deployment Advantages Windows Imaging Windows Preinstallation Environment Application Compatibility Toolkit Deployment Management Systems

Helpful Experience Familiarity with deployment concepts Familiarity with Windows administration Level 200

Agenda Exploring Deployment Considerations Using Vista Deployment Tools Deploying Windows Vista

Deployment Challenges System Diversity Admin Costs Data Migration • Hardware • Software • Roles • Configuration • Testing • Management • Applications • User data • System settings

Managed Deployment Advantages Consistency Manageability Reliability • Limit configurations • Standardize systems • Centralized • Automated • System testing • System Restore

Deployment Scenarios New System Deployment Server System Upgrade Side-by-Side

Agenda Exploring Deployment Considerations Using Vista Deployment Tools Deploying Windows Vista

Vista Deployment Enhancements Modularization • Component separation • Independent definition • Building blocks Windows Imaging • Powerful tools • Configurable files • Flexible application Microsoft Deployment Solutions

A Brief History of Imaging SMS 2003 Reference Computer Target Computer . wim file Answer Files RIS Client Product CD WINNT 32 RIS Server . wim file Distribution Share

Vista Imaging Design Goals WIM file

Benefits of WIM Format Image 1 Image 2 WIM file Image 3 Image 4

WIM Image Format Overview Header WIM file File Resources Metadata Resource Table XML Data

Image. X /append /mount /dir /unmount Appends a volume image into an existing WIM file Mounts an image with read-only access to the specified directory Displays a list of files and folders in a volume image Unmounts the image mounted to the specified directory

Demonstration Using Image. X

Imaging Extensibility WIMGAPI Basic Functions Function Description WIMCreate. File Create new WIM file WIMLoad. Image Load image from WIMCapture. Image Capture specified path WIMGet. Attributes Return WIM info WIMMount. Image Mount image to specified path WIMApply. Image Apply image to specified path

Image Capture WIM file

Image-Capture Options WIM file WIMSCRIPT. INI

Demonstration Capturing an Image

Imaging Filters Filter Type Filter Use WIM file system filter Edit the image WIM boot filter Boot from a WIM image WIM FS filter driver Mount and view the image

Image Editing Mount Directory Image. X /MOUNT WIM file /MOUNTRW /COMMIT /UNMOUNT

Demonstration Modifying an Image

Image Installation WIM file

Deploying the Image WIM file • Enhance the image • Install on a test computer • Deploy the image

Windows System Image Manager • Detects packages • Handles install paths • Simple interface Windows Setup • Single. xml file • Simplified customization Unattend. xml

Demonstration Using System Image Manager

Windows PE 2. 0 Install or Troubleshoot Windows Vista Windows Preinstallation Environment Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE) Deployment Target Removable Media Deployment Server

Integration with Longhorn Vista

Application Compatibility Toolkit Correct Run Level Application Database

Files and Settings Transfer Wizard Network USB device Removable Media • System Settings • E-mail • Files • Favorites

Agenda Exploring Deployment Considerations Using Vista Deployment Tools Deploying Windows Vista

Image-Based Deployment Offline • Test • Build Image Windows PE • Disk Prep • Apply Image Online • Settings • Unattend. xml First Boot • Sys. Prep • Unique ID OOBE • Register • User Config

Image-Based Upgrade Offline Windows PE Online Hardware Specialization • Install non-standard drivers • Test hardware First Boot Apply New System • Restore user data • Delete old system OOBE

Vista Upgrade Enhancements Clean Install Model Upgrade Report Automatic Rollback

Deploying Vista with SMS

Microsoft BDD

Session Summary Using managed deployment lowers TCO Windows Imaging increases reliability Management tools automate deployment

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