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Among the many make and models I have deploy Vista to, a specific notebook model crashed during litetouch deployment with following error: ”Windows could not parse or process unattended answer file [C:\Windows\Panther\unattended.xml] for pass [Specialize]. The answer file is invalid.” This issue was not that easy to solve. It turned out that the error was [...]

When running WAIK 1.1 on a x64 Vista or x64 Windows 2008 systems, you cannot generate a catalog for a captures x86 Vista or Windows 2008. It’s a shame, really. But there is a workaround: Copy the original catalog of your Vista x86 (INSTALL_WINDOWS VISTA ENTERPRISE.CLG) from your distribution share’s original OS (Distribution\Operating Systems\OriginalVistaEntSP1x86\sources) to [...]

The script LTIApply I got in the download of MDT2008 x64 has a bug, to my humble opinion: Line 255 should read: BackupStore oEnvironment.Item(“DestinationLogicalDrive”) & “\boot\bcd.save” and not: BackupStore oEnvironment.Item(“DestinationLogicalDrive”) & “\sources\bcd.save” Without this correction, the script ZTIBackup.wsf will not fine the bcd.save to overwrite the bcd store and your capture image will always try [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIL and MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images 1. Add your captured image Your custom image has now been captured on your deployment server under C:\Distribution\Captures. You can rename the wim file to MasterVistaSP1x86.wim if you [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIL ans MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images IV -MDT 2008: MICROSOFT DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT 2008 1. The Components First you’ll add all the ingredients you need for your recipes. You will add new ingredients for new [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIK ans MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images II – WAIK 1.1: WINDOWS AUTOMATED INSTALLATION KIT The WAIK contains a collection of tools such as ImageX, System Image Manager, Package Manager, CopyPE, PEImg, help and doc [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIL ans MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images I – WDS: WINDOWS DEPLOYMENT SERVICES Since we will use the MDT LiteTouch to build a hardware unspecific, but customized Vista SP1 image, to sysprep and capture it, [...]

I created this post to document the major steps I went through during my Vista deployment project. So it is intended as a reference for my own usage, but you might find it useful if you want to deploy Vista SP1 and/or Windows 2008 server in a fully automated way without third party tools, nor [...]