Transcript Windows 7 Test Prep Ch 2 Configuring System Images Part 2 Based on this book.

Windows 7 Test Prep
Ch 2 Configuring System Images
Part 2
Based on this book
Lesson 1: Capturing System Images
• Last time: Creating an answer file
– Saving it as unattend.xml on a UFD (USB Flash
Drive)
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Creating a Reference Image
Distributing an Image to Many Computers
Using the Deployment Image
Servicing and Management Tool
Sysprep
Creating a Reference Image
• VHD Image
– Requires Win 7 Enterprise or Ultimate
– Capture an image of your current Win 7 computer
and save the image to a VHD
– Boot from the VHD
• Image on a network share
– Any version of Win 7 is OK
– The most common case, used to deploy Win 7 to
many computers
Building a Reference Installation
• Insert a Win 7 Installation DVD
• Insert the UFD containing th answer file
• Restart the computer, boot from DVD
Preparing the Reference Computer
for the End User
• In an elevated command prompt:
• c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe
/oobe /generalize /shutdown
– Sysprep removes user-specific and computerspecific settings, and log files
– Generalize removes hardware-specific information
from the Windows installation
• Including out-of-box drivers
– OOBE will display Windows Welcome on the next
restart
To Keep Drivers
• To preserve out-of-box device drivers
– Set the PersistAllDeviceInstalls setting of the
Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep feature to True
in the answer file
Creating a Bootable Windows PE
Medium
1. Create a local WinPE build directory with copype
2. Copy ImageX to the Iso subdirectory of your
Windows PE build directory
3. Optionally, create a Wimscript.ini file to exclude
files or folders from the image
4. Save Wimscript.ini to the Iso subdirectory of your
Windows PE build directory
5. Create an ISO file witn Oscdimg
6. Burn the image to DVD or CD with 3rd party
software
Cruel Missing Steps
• Copy & rename winpe.wim to ISO\boot.wim
• Use DISM to mount the image for changes
– Add boot files to the image
• Configure BCD store
• Use DISM to commit changes
• See http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/dd744537(v=WS.10).aspx
Using Copype
• In an elevated command prompt:
• C:\Program Files\Windows
AIK\Tools\PETools\copype.cmd <architecture>
<destination>
– <architecture> can be x86, amd64, or ia64
– <destination> is a path to the local directory
• Example:
– copycpe.cmd x86 c:\winpe86
Using Oscdimg
• Usage: OSCDIMG [options] sourceroot targetfile
• oscdimg -n -bc:\winpe_x86\etfsboot.com
c:\winpe_x86\ISO c:\winpe_x86\winpe_x86.iso
• -n: long file names
• -b: specifies file that will be written to the boot
sector of the disk
Capturing the Installation onto a
Network Share
1. Boot from your WinPE media
2. Use ImageX to capture an image
3. Copy the image to a network share