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Windows Vista® Resource Kit, Second Edition
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Windows Vista® Resource Kit, Second Edition

by Jerry Honeycutt, Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1696 pages
91h 39m
English
Microsoft Press
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Summary

The new Windows Vista deployment platform and tools will make deploying the operating system in your organization easier than deploying earlier versions of Windows. The new .wim file format makes it possible to deploy highly compressed image files. Windows Vista helps reduce image count by removing hardware dependencies from the image. Modularization in Windows Vista makes servicing images easier than legacy methods so that you no longer have to apply, customize, and recapture an image to update it. The new answer file format, Unattend.xml, provides a more flexible and consistent configuration. Finally, the new deployment tools, ImageX and Windows SIM, provide a robust way to create, customize, and manage Windows Vista images.

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