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Contents
PART I – DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 – Overview ................................................................................................................................................ 9
Purpose of This Guide ............................................................................................................................................ 9
Audience ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
How This Guide is Organized ............................................................................................................................... 10
Document Conventions ....................................................................................................................................... 11
What’s Not in This Guide ..................................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 2 – Deployment Introduction .................................................................................................................... 12
Deployment Concepts .......................................................................................................................................... 12
Deployment and Imaging ................................................................................................................................ 12
Sysprep and Generalization ............................................................................................................................. 13
Image Servicing ................................................................................................................................................ 14
Licensing .......................................................................................................................................................... 15
Deployment Types ........................................................................................................................................... 16
Deployment Tools ................................................................................................................................................ 17
Factors and Considerations ............................................................................................................................. 17
Third Party Tools .............................................................................................................................................. 18
Microsoft Tools ................................................................................................................................................ 18
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit ............................................................................................................................. 22
The Deployment Workbench .......................................................................................................................... 22
Deployment Shares ......................................................................................................................................... 23
Windows Deployment Wizard ......................................................................................................................... 25
Driver Management ........................................................................................................................................ 26
Application Management ................................................................................................................................ 26
Package Management ..................................................................................................................................... 27
Task Sequences ................................................................................................................................................ 28
Considerations for Images ................................................................................................................................... 29
The Single Image Goal ..................................................................................................................................... 29
Using a Virtual Machine as a Reference System ............................................................................................. 30
Selecting Applications for the Base Image ...................................................................................................... 30
