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Windows® 7 Resource Kit
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Windows® 7 Resource Kit

by Tony Northrup Mitch Tulloch and Jerry Honeycutt
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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Platform Components

Understanding the new deployment tools and how they interconnect is the first step in beginning a Windows 7 deployment project. Figure 3-1 illustrates the Windows 7 deployment platform. At the lowest tier are Windows Imaging (.wim) files, which are highly compressed, file-based operating system images.

Windows 7 deployment platform components

Figure 3-1. Windows 7 deployment platform components

At the second tier are answer files. Versions of Windows earlier than Windows Vista had numerous answer files, including Unattend.txt and Sysprep.inf, to drive the deployment process. Windows 7 uses a single XML-based answer file, Unattend.xml, to drive all its configuration passes ...

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