Thanks guys, Please let me know what problems you guys encounter and how things turn out. I'm now working for an Outsourced IT/Systems Intergrator company so I'm not dealing with one company or one brand of hardware. I've realised that it's a real bitch keeping all your drivers up to date through imaging and it can screw up if you have a faulty driver that doesn't install such as the MassStorage ones. I'm thinking about making another tutorial using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 beta which uses an unnatended fashion. I've used it before and it was pretty great considering you could enter in all the details you needed when you first boot up and leave it and everything would be done for you. Another thing I did while I was creating these deployment methods was that I was using Group Policy Software Installation to install all the SOE software on first boot. Anyway if you guys have any more ideas let me know.
1 2009-05-16 11:06:59
Re: How to guides on deploying Hardware Independant Windows XP WIM Images (6 replies, posted in Universal Imaging)
2 2009-03-10 11:27:38
Topic: How to guides on deploying Hardware Independant Windows XP WIM Images (6 replies, posted in Universal Imaging)
I just wanted to let you guys know that I have posted 2 howto guides on my blog to share with yas.
The first is "How to create a hardware independent sysprepped WIM image of Windows XP for deployment from Windows Deployment Services" and the second being "Setting up Windows Deployment Services for WIM image based network deployment of Windows XP on Windows Server 2003".
I used the driverpacks from this website for drivers aswell as adding any missing drivers aswell.
I have learnt alot from these forums throughout many years of experimenting and working on optimsing a good way to deploy Windows XP.
I have them availible in word documents also in case you guys want to use/update them yourselves.
Anyway my blog address is http://ashleystechblog.blogspot.com/ so let me know what you think.
I have already posted a topic in another forum and would prefer everyone replied in that forum as to keep all information in one place. The link is http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130866
Please feel free to ask any questions.