Best practices for installing using imaging, Appendix b – Faronics Data Igloo Standard User Manual
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Appendix B
Best Practices for Installing Using Imaging
Prequisites: You must know about imaging using Sysprep before running this example. For more
informaiton, refer to
Imaging workstations is one of the quickest ways to deploy workstation software and operating
system settings to multiple workstations. Creating specialized image for single computer and
reimaging it is a straightforward process, since it does not require any steps to re-configure the
system. However, in enterprise environments, the master image is intended for deployment on
multiple computers and has to be configured or generalized in order to remove system specific
information, such as computer name, user SID etc. The master image is usually customized with
certain system configuration and installed software. Below is the recommended way of creating
customized master image with Deep Freeze and Data Igloo installed.
1. Using Windows System manager in WindowsAIK, customize the .xml answer file for
unattended Windows installation.
2. Install fresh Windows system on reference computer.
3. Press Ctrl-Shift-F3 to reboot the system into Audit mode before creating user name on freshly
installed system. Alternatively, to create users on master image, finalize Windows installation,
create all required users and reboot system into Audit mode using Windows SysPrep utility.
This will reboot the system into Audit mode, where the system can be further customized.
4. In the Audit mode, perform all required customizations and software installations. This
includes Deep Freeze workstation and Data Igloo. At this point, do not configure Data Igloo to
redirect users, folders and registry.
5. This step is only to configure all the required scripts. Create all required scripting solutions
and configure Windows SysPrep which will runthe unattended installation. Configure scripts
to automatically run on first reboot after deploying the image. The scripts can be configured to
perform drive letter re-assignment as well as scripting using the Data Igloo command line tool
IGC.exe. The scripts can be configured to perform user, folder, and registry redirections. This
will ensure the newly imaged system will automatically perform all required customizations,
which were not possible to make within master image.
6. Set the Clone flag in Deep Freeze workstation configuration. This will ensure Deep Freeze will
startup in Thawed mode on newly imaged system. Therefore, all the customizations will be
permanently retained.