Lenovo ThinkVantage (Rescue and Recovery 4.5) - Manual (Page 22)

• Required components are always installed upon recovery.
• Optional components are displayed for the user on the Base Software Selector menu.
• Restricted components are not installed upon recovery, and are not displayed to the end user.
Manifest files
Customizing the recovery process is controlled with manifest files. The Base Software Administrator program
can create custom manifest files. Manifest files have the extension .cfi, and contain information about the
components within the service partition where it resides. Manifest files also control the selections available
to the user during a custom recovery. The information contained in a manifest file includes component
categorization such as required, optional, and restricted. In addition, manifest files contain meta-data,
such as descriptions and comments.
Preinstallation setup
To accomplish preinstallation setup, you can use the Base Software Administrator program to create
personalization files. A personalization file has the file extension of .per and contains information needed
to automate the preinstallation setup for Windows. The recovery process reads the personalization file,
extracts the data from the personalization file and places the data in the correct Windows control files. You
can save time and effort by using the Base Software Administrator program to customize personalization
files and then deploying those personalization files onto user computers. For example, you can create a
personalization file to set the Time Zone for Windows and then deploy that personalization file to a users
computer; therefore, a user will not have to manually validate the Time Zone settings.
Personalization files
Personalization files are customized by defining the settings with the Base Software Administrator program.
The following tables provide a description of each type of setting that can be defined.
The General settings table provides the settings used to define the user name, organization and time zone
for a computer:
Table 9. General settings
Setting Windows control file keyword Description
Name FullName= Sets the user name for the computer.
Organization OrgName= Sets the organization the computer
belongs to, such as a specific
department or location.
Time zone TimeZone= Sets the time zone for the computer.
The Network settings table provides the settings used to assign the computer name, administrator password
and the workgroup or domain of the destination computer:
Table 10. Network settings
Setting Windows control file keyword Description
Computer name ComputerName= Sets the name for the computer.
Administrator password AdminPassword= Sets the administrator password.
Encrypted administrator password EncryptedAdminPassword= Sets the encrypted administrator
password.
Workgroup JoinWorkgroup= Sets the workgroup for the computer.
Domain JoinDomain= Sets the domain for the computer.
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