[WinPartners] Vista Deployment Resources

[Tim Rix]

Hi everyone,

At last weeks WinPartners meeting, I said I would send out the best of 
the resources I had found to help navigate the somewhat circular 
documentation that Microsoft has seen fit to provide for Windows Vista 
deployment.  The main tool for image creation is the Microsoft 
Deployment Toolkit or MDT 2008.  There are very few text descriptions 
for using MDT 2008 and some of the videos are too focused to be 
generally useful.  The videos still seem to be the best overview of the 
process though.  The best one is a 
http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/.  Do a search for video and the 
second hit features a Lite Touch deployment.  The direct link is 
http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2008/03/13/microsoft-deployment-toolkit-lite-touch-video-walk-through.aspx 
but I think their site is worth bookmarking.  The Deployment Guys blog 
has lots of other good information for those that wish to dig a little 
deeper.

There is also a text based walkthrough of how to set up MDT 2008 at 
http://blogs.ethz.ch/jlaville/2008/03/21/step-by-step-vista-and-windows-2008-deployment-with-wds-waik-and-mdt/ 
.

These processes can also be adapted for Windows XP deployment as well.

Good luck,

Tim

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Tim Rix
Windows Domain Manager
MIT Libraries
email: ter at mit.edu
phone: (617) 258-5009