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Creating Windows Images for Deployment

Windows 7 builds on the enhanced architecture in Windows Vista. This architecture is both language independent and hardware independent. Windows 7 achieves language independence through its modular component design, and it achieves hardware independence through its imaging format. In a modular component design, each component is designed as a smaller, independent unit that performs a particular task or function. Thanks to modularization, every component of the operating system, from device drivers to language packs and service packs, can be created as a module that can be selectively swapped in or out to customize the operating system environment.

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In this tutorial:

  1. Deploying Windows 7
  2. Working with Windows PE
  3. Understanding Windows pe
  4. Configuring Windows PE
  5. Preparing a Build environment
  6. Creating a Build: the essentials
  7. Mounting a Windows pe Image
  8. Customizing a Windows PE Image
  9. Capturing and Optimizing a Build
  10. Creating a Bootable ISO Image and Bootable Media
  11. Creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive
  12. Booting to an Image from a hard Disk
  13. Adding Windows pe Images to Windows Deployment Services
  14. Working with Windows RE
  15. Creating a Customized Windows RE Image
  16. Creating Windows re recovery Media
  17. Adding Windows RE Images to Windows Deployment Services
  18. Deploying Windows with a Customized Windows RE
  19. Creating Windows Images for Deployment
  20. Understanding Windows Imaging
  21. Creating a Windows Install Image
  22. Configuring and Using Windows Deployment Services
  23. Setting Up Windows Deployment Services
  24. Importing Images
  25. Installing Windows from an Image
  26. Capturing Images
  27. Managing access and prestaging Computers
  28. Modifying Image File Security
  29. Customizing Windows Images