| 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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