Configuring Windows 7 (Training Kit) - Part 15. 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. | CHAPTER 3 Deploying System Images This chapter discusses the management manipulation and deployment of system images. You deploy an image when you install it on one or more target computers. It looks at how you mount a system image so it can be updated and altered how you then commit these changes to the original image and how you distribute that image to a number often a large number of client computers. In the context of system images you mount an image by expanding it into a folder so you can obtain information about it and add or remove features such as drivers updates and language packs. Microsoft provides a range of tools for image manipulation and deployment some of which are specific to Windows 7 images whereas others are more general. Some tools manipulate images others deploy them and some tools do both. It is your job as a network administrator to choose the best tools for your current and future needs and configure them so that they work efficiently and go on working efficiently. If your users are sitting at computers with operating systems drivers and applications that are up to date and as invulnerable as you can make them to Internet and intranet attacks they will be less unhappy. If you can bring one computer or 100 computers into full operation quickly efficiently and without error then your boss will be less unhappy. We all know of course that neither users nor bosses are ever happy. Exam objectives in this chapter Prepare a system image for deployment. Deploy a system image. Lessons in this chapter Lesson 1 Managing a System Image Before Deployment 116 Lesson 2 Deploying System Images 146 CHAPTER 3 113 Before You Begin To complete the exercises in the practices in this chapter you need to have done the following Installed the Windows 7 operating system on a stand-alone client PC as described in Chapter 1 Install Migrate or Upgrade to Windows 7. You need Internet access to complete the exercises. Completed all the practice exercises in Chapter 2 .
