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Deploying Windows 7

With Windows 7, you can deploy custom builds to computers through manual and automated processes. To deploy Windows using manual processes, you need to create the required boot and installation images and optionally create recovery images. To automate the deployment process, you need to install Windows Deployment Services. Whether you use a completely manual process, a completely automated process, or some combination of the two, you'll perform similar administrative tasks. These tasks require you to understand and use:

  • Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)
  • Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)
  • Windows Imaging tools
  • Windows Deployment Services

We discuss these technologies in this tutorial and show you how to use them to deploy Windows 7.

In this tutorial:

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