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Error creating catalog for unattend.xml

Posted by Jacques on 14th April 2008

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 [...]

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Vista and W2K8 Deployment – Part I

Posted by Jacques on 22nd March 2008

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, [...]

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Vista and Windows 2008 Deployment with WDS, WAIK and MDT LiteTouch

Posted by Jacques on 21st March 2008

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 [...]

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