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PDI 2010 Presented by Jason Huitt, ACNS
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Scenario A – “Technician in the Field” Scenario B – “Lab Management” Image Management ◦ PDI Interruption Policy : Stop me at any time!
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Welcome to the Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE) ◦ Replaces the ubiquitous Win98 boot disk ◦ Includes a GUI with Notepad, Task Manager ◦ Includes a full network stack Built-in support for a plethora of network cards ◦ Version 3.0 includes Win7 / R2 code base ◦ Included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 (aka WAIK 2.0) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=696DD665-9F76-4177-A811- 39C26D3B3B34&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=696DD665-9F76-4177-A811- 39C26D3B3B34&displaylang=en
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Imagex – Microsoft’s Ghost Buster ◦ Creates and deploys file-based images of entire drive partitions Unlike sector-based images (CD, DVD, GHO) ◦ Images stored in Windows Image Format (WIM) ◦ Uses single-instance file storage ◦ Supports three levels of compression ◦ Utility also mounts and manipulates WIM files
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Demo ◦ Booting into WinPE from flash drive ◦ Capturing an image imagex /capture c: x:\image.wim 1 “description” ◦ Managing partitions with Diskpart ◦ Deploying an image imagex /apply x:\image.wim 1 c:
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First, create a bootable flash drive: ◦ Execute diskpart from an elevated command prompt list disk select disk x clean create partition primary active format quick fs=fat32 exit See the following blog post for details: ◦ http://www.jasonhuitt.com/blog/post/Creating-a-Bootable- Flash-Drive-with-WinPE-and-Windows-Vista.aspx http://www.jasonhuitt.com/blog/post/Creating-a-Bootable- Flash-Drive-with-WinPE-and-Windows-Vista.aspx
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Full details on creating a custom WinPE image available here: http://www.jasonhuitt.com/blog/post/Building-a-WinPE-30-Image-from- Scratch.aspx http://www.jasonhuitt.com/blog/post/Building-a-WinPE-30-Image-from- Scratch.aspx ◦ Create a WinPE build workspace ◦ Mount the WinPE boot image file (boot.wim) ◦ Copy Imagex and any other tools you like into the boot.wim ◦ Inject any NIC or storage drivers into the boot.wim ◦ Unmount the boot image ◦ Copy the contents of the ISO folder in the build workspace to your flash drive OR ◦ Build an ISO image, and burn that to a CD or DVD
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Imaging from and to a network location will be significantly faster than from a large flash drive Using Imagex to capture images is the ACNS- preferred method of performing litigation holds for individual user workstation HDs Windows Setup = WinPE + Imagex + install.wim ◦ Imagex /capture c: x:\image.wim 1 “description”
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No DHCP? Not a problem! ◦ Netsh int tcp set address “local area connection” static 129.82.x.y 255.255.255.0 129.82.x.1 WinPE requires a working storage driver ◦ But, WinPE drivers can be loaded “on the fly” WinPE & Imagex fully compatible with XP, Server 2003, Vista, 2008, Win7 & R2
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How can we scale this process up for managing larger numbers of workstations? Answer: Windows Deployment Services ◦ Supports remote boot of clients (requires DHCP) ◦ Ability to deploy “clean OS builds” as well as custom images ◦ Multicast functionality is built-in Supports splitting clients into multiple speed groups Make sure to use 239.82.x.y for multicasting!!!! ◦ Supported as a Role on Server 2008 and 2008 R2
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To enable PXE boot: DHCP Option 066 = FQDN of WDS server DHCP Option 067 = boot\x86\wdsnbp.com First upload a WinPE boot image Next, upload a Windows 7 or Server 2008/R2 boot image from installation media Finally upload installation & custom images Great step-by-step configuration guide here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc766320(WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc766320(WS.10).aspx
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WDS will only be capable of deploying to computers with NICs that are recognized by Win7 & 2008/R2 installation media If your DHCP server serves multiple distinct subnets or VLANs, additional router configuration may be required
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Windows Deployment Services demo ◦ Booting into WinPE from WDS ◦ Quick overview of WDS MMC Multicast session creation ◦ Multicasting using WDS
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Sysprep ◦ Improved in Windows Vista & 7 ◦ Still necessary! Storing multiple “images” in the same image file provides advantages
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Deployment Image Servicing & Management Tool ◦ Part of WAIK 7 ◦ One-stop shop for image maintenance Add, remove & enumerate software packages Add, remove & enumerate drivers Enable or disable Windows features Services 32 & 64-bit platforms
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Replaces Business Desktop Deployment 2007 Billed as Microsoft “Best Practice” “Light-Touch” and “Zero-Touch” End-to-end image creation and maintenance Oemsetup.inf/Unattend.inf on steroids Supports XP SP3, Vista, 2008, Win7 & R2 Nicely integrates with SCCM 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx
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Keep in mind the new default partition scheme in Windows 7 and 2008 R2 setup ◦ For Bitlocker compatibility, Windows Setup will by default create a 100MB boot partition for system files, and a larger partition for the OS and application files To avoid this, create a small partition manually, and use the Extend feature to expand the partition to the desired size
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Windows 7 Resource Kit – Deployment ◦ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EE2A1D38- 88A9-43B3-95BC-7E962F0B6030&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EE2A1D38- 88A9-43B3-95BC-7E962F0B6030&displaylang=en ◦ 332 pages of goodness from the Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine
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Thanks for attending today! Feel free to e-mail questions about deployment or anything Windows to Jason.Huitt@colostate.edu 1-2511
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