Configuring Windows 7 (Training Kit) - Part 19. This training kit is designed for IT professionals who operate in enterprise enviroments that use Windows 7 as a desktop operating system. You should have at least one year of experience in the IT field, as well as experience implementing and administering any Windows client operating system in a networked environment. | 2. In the Specify Directory page of the Create Distribution Share Wizard click Create A New Distribution Share. 3. Type the location for the distribution share on the local system in the Path For New Distribution Share Directory text box and then click Finish. You can use Deployment Workbench to configure the distribution share to implement the following tasks Add remove and configure operating systems. Add remove and configure applications. Add remove and configure operating system packages including updates and language packs. Add remove and configure out-of-box device drivers. The source files for these tasks are stored in the distribution share folder and are associated with task sequences during the configuration process. Deployment Workbench stores metadata about operating systems applications operating system packages and out-of-box device drivers in the distribution share s Control subfolder. Adding an Operating System Image If you have created a custom image either by imaging a reference computer as described in Chapter 2 or by imaging a client workstation running Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate to place that image on bootable VHD for failover you can add that operating system image to the distribution share on a computer running MDT 2010. This is typically a thick-image approach because your reference image will contain updates applications drivers and packages including language packs . You can also add WDS images from WDS servers to the distribution share. However possibly the most typical scenario is that you add an image and all its associated installation files from installation media. You do this in the practice later in this lesson. Typically this gives you flexibility because a single file can contain images for several Windows 7 editions. It is a thin-image approach because images on the installation media will not include any third-party drivers Windows Installer files mission-critical applications or additional language packs. Most
