Configuring Windows 7 (Training Kit) - Part 20. 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. | FIGURE 3-30 The Microsoft Update Catalog home page Add updates using WSUS or SCCM 2007 You can use WSUS or SCCM 2007 to install the security updates after deployment. Depending on the configuration it might take an hour or more before all updates are applied. Including the SCCM client in the image and setting it to communicate with a specific SCCM site can result in all computers built from the image communicating with only that site. Slipstream updates to the installation source You can download security updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog and integrate them into the Windows installation source before beginning the unattended build process. This protects the image from known security exploits but integrating the security updates requires administrative effort. Keeping an Offline File on a VHD Up to Date You can use the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool discussed in Chapter 2 to keep offline VHD files that contain installations of Windows 7 up to date with service packs and software updates. The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool can update a large number of offline virtual machines or VHDs according to their individual needs. The tool works with SCVMM 2007 or SCVMM 2008 in addition to WSUS SCCM 2007 or Configuration Manager 2007 R2. The tool uses the concept of servicing jobs to manage the update operations based on lists of existing virtual machines stored in SCVVM. A servicing job runs Windows PowerShell scripts to work with virtual machines and VHDs. The servicing job deploys a virtual machine Lesson 2 Deploying Images CHAPTER 3 163 to a host and starts it or boots a computer that holds an image installed to implement failover from that image triggers the software update cycle and closes down the updated device. The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool then either shuts down the virtual machine or boots the computer that has the VHD installed from its normal boot image. To use the tool you configure virtual machine or VHD groups and create
