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deployment share to the Operating Systems folder of the production deployment share. Also copy the test deployment
task sequence that you created in the

Creating the Test Deployment Task Sequence section in Chapter 4

to the

production deployment share.

Figure 5.5: Deployment Workbench Showing Lab and Production Deployment Shares.

Importing Drivers

While the customized image and test deployment task sequence from the lab deployment share both work fine in a

virtual machine, they contain no specific drivers for a physical computer. To deploy to Surface Pro 3 devices, the drivers
for WinPE and for Windows must be imported and organized for selection during deployment and boot media creation.
Follow the process provided in the

Importing Drivers section of Chapter 3

to import the drivers for Surface Pro 3 into the

deployment share.

Importing Applications

Now that drivers are supplied for the Surface Pro 3, the next step is to prepare any applications desired for installation

in the deployed operating system. In this scenario, the applications Adobe Reader, Oracle Java Runtime Environment,
and Microsoft Office 2013 Professional Plus via Microsoft Office 365 will be required on the deployed Surface Pro 3
devices.

Application installation during deployment is performed by specifying a command that runs a setup program or

installation files that have been imported into the deployment share, or files that are available on the network. The

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