Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Vista
Windows Vista SP1 RTM
Posted by on February 4, 2008
Windows team Blog post here says Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing so not long to go now until it’s generally available. I’ve been using Vista exclusively since it RTM’d and from Beta 2 before that. I got a new laptop with a core 2 Duo CPU and went up to 4Gb RAM [...]
Problems Restoring a non-SysPrep Vista Image Using DiskPart & ImageX
Posted by on February 3, 2008
Goal: keep a single .WIM file, Multiple instances of the same build in the .WIM file Build001 non-sysprep’d version for maintenence with all latest patches and corp apps Build002 sysprep but no domain for home workers/3rd party Build003 sysprep + domain joining and scripted OOBE for corp machines Build004…etc. tweaks to the sysprep – [...]
Making Something Run When a Windows PE 2.0 CD/DVD Starts.
Posted by on February 3, 2008
I need a DVD that automatically applies a .WIM image when WinPE boots – no prompts; just want to press F9 for the BIOS Boot menu and walk away until build is finished. I built a WinPE 2.0 image the usual way, but I want to add files to it (easy with PowerISO) but [...]
Build a Windows Vista Master PC Image
Posted by on February 1, 2008
I haven’t had to do this sort of thing for a while and it’s the first time I’ve done it with Vista so here is a list of things I found; mainly for my own memory but hopefully it helps you too.. I only had 24 hours to do this, 50+ new PC’s to [...]
