Johnson Joseph

Richard Lambert
Saulo Lopez
Salomon Utrera
CTS 2153
Professor: John Chin

STEPS TO BACKING UP &

DEPLOYING A REFERENCE
COMPUTER IMAGE.

Here's How:
1) CREATE A WINPE ISO IMAGE
a) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744537%28WS.10%29.aspx
2) CREATE A REFERENCE MACHINE
a) Install Updates
b) Install Windows Security Essentials
c) Install Office 2010 Beta
d) Install any additional Software that may be needed by the user.
3) SYSPREP THE REFERENCE MACHINE
a) GOTO C:
b) GOTO SYSTEM32 FOLDER
c) GO TO SYSPREP FOLDER
d) RUN SYSPREP.EXE
4) You need to generalize a reference image, removing hardware-specific information
(such as the reference computer’s SID),

Typically, in addition to the reference computer whose image you intend to build and
capture, you require a technician computer that runs the tools you use to generalize and
capture the image, for example the Windows AIK tools. The technician computer does
not need to be running Windows 7—it could, for example, be a Windows Vista or
Windows XP client. .
a) SELECT OOBE (OUT OF BOX EXPERIENCE) OPTION
b) SELECT GENERALIZE OPTION
c) SELECT SHUTDOWN OPTION
d) REBOOT REFERENCE MACHINE THROUGH THE WINPE CD-ROM
e) CAPTURE THE INSTALLATION ONTO A NETWORK SHARE
Johnson Joseph
Richard Lambert
Saulo Lopez
Salomon Utrera
CTS 2153
Professor: John Chin

You can capture an image of your reference computer by using Windows PE and the
ImageX tool. Then you store that image on a network share. Alternatively, on a
computer running Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate edition, you can store the image
on a VHD and make that VHD bootable.

Insert your Windows PE media into your reference computer and restart the computer.
As before, you may have to override the boot order to boot from the CD/DVD-ROM
drive. If so, select the appropriate function key to override the boot order during
initial boot.

Windows PE starts and opens a command-prompt window. Use the ImageX tool
located on your Windows PE media to capture an image of your reference computer
installation. For example, if your optical drive is drive E:, your installation is on drive C:,
and you want to capture the image on drive D:, you would enter:

e:\imagex.exe /capture C: d:\installationimage.wim "my Win7 Install" /compress

fast /verify

Copy the image to a network location. For example, enter:

net use y: \\network_share\images

copy d:\myimage.wim y:

If necessary, provide network credentials for appropriate network access. Your image is
now on volume Y:

f) DEPLOYING FROM A NETWORK SHARE

After you have imaged your reference installation, you can deploy the image onto new
hardware (one or more destination computers). This section describes how you would do this
manually. Chapter 3 discusses MDT 2010 and the automatic installation of multiple client
computers.

To deploy an image from a network share, you use the Diskpart tool to format the hard drive of
a destination computer. Then you copy the image from the network share. Perform the
following procedure:

On your destination computer, insert your Windows PE media and restart the computer
by pressing the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys. Windows PE opens a command-prompt window.
Johnson Joseph
Richard Lambert
Saulo Lopez
Salomon Utrera
CTS 2153
Professor: John Chin

Format the hard drive to reflect the disk configuration requirements by using the Diskpart tool
from the Windows PE command-prompt window. To do this, open an elevated command
prompt.

Enter diskpart.
Enter select disk 0.
Enter clean.
Enter create partition primary size=100.
Enter select partition 1.
Enter format fs=ntfs label=”system”.
Enter assign letter=c.
Enter active.
Enter create partition primary.
Enter select partition 2.
Enter format fs=ntfs label=”Windows”.
Enter assign letter=d.
Enter exit.

Copy the image from the network share to your local hard drive. For example, at an
elevated command prompt, type:

net use y: \\network_share\images

copy y:\installationimage.wim d:

If necessary, provide network credentials for appropriate access.

Apply the image to the hard drive by using the ImageX tool located on the Windows
PE media. For example, at an elevated command prompt, enter:

e:\imagex.exe /apply d:\myimage.wim 1 C:

Use BCDboot to initialize the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store and copy boot Environment
files to the system partition. For example, at a command prompt, type:
d:\windows\system32\bcdboot d:\windows