Introduction

Deploying Microsoft operating systems can be quite complicated, but it doesn't have to be. The setup program is completely different from what you have known in the past with OSs like Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. There are now configuration passes to perform during the installation and new tools to help you get the job done. In this book we start at the beginning of a deployment project and work our way through deploying OSs, applications, drivers, and packages. And more importantly, we don't stop there. Re-imaging machines today is a valid and useful troubleshooting step. We'll show you how to maintain your images to keep them current even months down the road.

While most of the tools covered in this book are free—the time ...

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