Foreword | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Concepts of Deployment | p. 1 |
Computer deployment | p. 1 |
Deployment methods and technologies | p. 3 |
The Big Picture | p. 13 |
Remote Installation Services Windows services | p. 13 |
DHCP | p. 14 |
PXE | p. 14 |
BINLSVC | p. 14 |
TFTP | p. 15 |
SIF | p. 15 |
OSC files | p. 15 |
Summary | p. 15 |
Installing Remote Installation Services Server | p. 17 |
Remote Installation Services server requirements | p. 18 |
DHCP configuration | p. 20 |
Installing Remote Installation Services | p. 22 |
Other configuration options | p. 30 |
Additional images | p. 38 |
Unattended Remote Installation Services image installation | p. 38 |
Verifying Remote Installation Services | p. 40 |
Check the SIF and apply standard modifications | p. 47 |
Summary | p. 49 |
Client Installation | p. 51 |
Overview | p. 51 |
The flow in RIS installations | p. 52 |
Client installation | p. 56 |
Verifying the client installations | p. 60 |
Verifying drivers | p. 62 |
Common errors | p. 63 |
Summary | p. 65 |
Slipstreaming, RBFG, and Group Policy | p. 67 |
Slipstreaming | p. 67 |
Remote Boot Floppy Generator (RBFG) | p. 70 |
RIS Group Policy | p. 74 |
Summary | p. 77 |
The Setup Information File | p. 79 |
SIF architecture and functionality | p. 79 |
SIF directory | p. 80 |
How the SIF works | p. 80 |
SIF best practices | p. 82 |
Editing default SIF keys and values | p. 83 |
Optional sections | p. 88 |
Reference material | p. 90 |
Summary | p. 90 |
Setup Manager | p. 91 |
Installing Setup Manager | p. 91 |
Inside Setup Manager | p. 93 |
Changes in the SIF | p. 111 |
Summary | p. 114 |
Using RIPrep | p. 115 |
Overview | p. 115 |
Prerequisites | p. 117 |
Making an RIPrep image | p. 117 |
Changing the SIF | p. 130 |
Verifying the RIPrep image | p. 133 |
Summary | p. 137 |
Prestaging | p. 139 |
How it works | p. 140 |
How to find the GUID number | p. 140 |
Setup prestaging | p. 141 |
Enabled prestaging on the RIS server | p. 143 |
Finding prestaged computers in the Active Directory | p. 145 |
Summary | p. 147 |
Move and Backup of RIS Servers | p. 149 |
Move RIS images between volumes | p. 149 |
Moving RIS images between servers | p. 154 |
Moving RIS servers between domains | p. 155 |
Backup and restore of RIS servers | p. 156 |
Summary | p. 164 |
Understanding and Identifying Devices and Drivers | p. 165 |
Understanding driver inclusion | p. 165 |
Drivers included with Microsoft Windows | p. 166 |
What is OEM? | p. 167 |
Including OEM drivers in the installation | p. 167 |
Identifying devices and drivers | p. 168 |
Identifying unknown devices using the registry | p. 169 |
Driver file essentials | p. 173 |
Other files and folder structures | p. 175 |
Setup.exe programs | p. 175 |
Extracting drivers | p. 175 |
Multiple device support | p. 179 |
Summary | p. 179 |
Creating and Understanding the $OEM$ Structure | p. 181 |
$OEM$ subfolders and their functionality | p. 183 |
File and driver distribution example | p. 185 |
Finalizing the distribution point | p. 186 |
Converting short file names to long file names by using $$Rename.txt | p. 187 |
The $1 folder structure best practices | p. 189 |
Summary | p. 192 |
Driver Inclusion | p. 193 |
Adding the driver files | p. 193 |
Configuring the answer file to reflect your drivers | p. 195 |
The driver matching process | p. 197 |
Network adapters | p. 197 |
Audio, video, and modem drivers | p. 201 |
Chipset drivers and USB devices | p. 201 |
How to use the txtsetup.oem file to integrate SCSI and RAID adapters | p. 202 |
Adding an OEM Hardware Abstraction Layer | p. 207 |
Installing the HAL | p. 207 |
Multiple mass-storage devices and/or HALs | p. 209 |
Driver placement sequence | p. 210 |
Summary | p. 211 |
Deploying Files and Software | p. 213 |
General | p. 213 |
Silent installations | p. 214 |
Using cmdlines | p. 215 |
Using GuiRunOnce | p. 220 |
Deploying and executing scripts | p. 223 |
Deploying and using registry keys | p. 223 |
Adding printers | p. 224 |
Summary | p. 229 |
Working with OSC files | p. 231 |
Overview | p. 231 |
Custom OSC files | p. 236 |
Standard OSC files | p. 239 |
Supported OSCML tags | p. 240 |
Reserved OSC variables | p. 243 |
Common OSC error files | p. 246 |
Summary | p. 248 |
Components | p. 249 |
GuiUnattended | p. 297 |
Unattended | p. 309 |
UserData | p. 331 |
Index | p. 335 |
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