Intalling Windows 7
Image-Based Installation
- Corporate environments have been using imaging for many years as a method to quickly deploy workstation operating systems and applications. Sysprep has long been included as a deployment utility to support third-party imaging software.
- The overall steps in the imaging process are:
- Install and configure Windows 7 and applications on a source workstation
- Use Sysprep to generalize the source workstation for imaging
- Boot the source workstation using WindowsPE
- Use ImageX to capture the image from the source workstation and store it in a distribution share
- On the destination workstation, use WindowsPE to connect to the distribution share
- Use ImageX to apply the image in the distribution share to the destination workstation