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WAIK for Vista SP1 and Server 2008 and XP SP3 Dates

February 06, 2008

Hopefully you have heard by now that Vista SP1 and Server 2008 went RTM on Monday . But can you use these with OSD or MD? Well of course you can with the new version of WAIK. Also it is being reported that Vista SP1 goes live on Feb 18th or 19th and Windows XP SP3 goes live on March 23rd or 24th. Download details here direct download here (1.1 GB). Overview The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Windows Vista and...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

New SMS and Vista Virtual Labs

January 16, 2007

Deploying Windows Vista with SMS 2003 After completing this lab, you will be better able to: Install the SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack Update. Install USMT 3.0 to capture and restore user state information. Create an Image Capture Wizard CD. Image a Windows Vista client computer. Import the Windows Vista image into an SMS 2003 image package. Deploy the Windows Vista image to upgrade a Windows 2000 client computer. Windows Vista Image Engineering This lab is intended for IT professionals responsible...  ... Read the full post or  the 3 comments. Filed under: , , , ,

WAIK User Guides Released

December 05, 2006

This download contains four files, the getting_started_itpro.rtf, readme_WAIK.rtf, unattend.chm, and waik.chm. In the Getting Started guide, they cover the “end-to-end deployment scenario”, which includes building a lab, building an answer file (unattend.xml), building a master installation (reference computer), creating and deploying an image. The readme has more updates to the getting started guide, and covers known issues. The readme will be updated with newly discovered issues and published here...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , ,