25+ Vista deployment tricks
Next week I'm going on the road to visit schools in Denver, Phoenix, and Las Vegas back to back to back. I'm about to hop on a conference call with a peer to discuss the agenda. I'm thinking about abandoning the slide deck (I hate slides) and creating a tips and tricks type demo. I haven't come up with the list yet but it should be easy enough. Care to help?
- Pull the Vista WIM from the DVD
- Mount the WIM read/write
- Load the WIM in SIM
- Set default language, image, user.
- Save/store answer file.
- Mount the registry hive and make a change
- Add drivers to WIM offline
- Unmount WIM
- Store WIM in new VHD, boot new VM and apply WIM to OS volume, discuss doing so from a network share
- Boot 2003 server VM with new VHD, discuss WAIK install
- Add image to WDS
- Add answer file to WDS server, add to image
- Open RemoteInstall folder to discuss RWM vs. WIM
- Create capture WIM
- Create discovery WIM
- Add WinPE to Boot Images
- Create discovery ISO
- Boot VM, use discovery CD to connect to WDS and start install
- Boot existing Vista VM
- Run sysprep
- Boot to WinPE ISO
- Append Image to existing WIM
- ImageX /info to display images
- Span images
- Export an image
Thoughts?