Comments on: Deploy Windows Vista: Microsoft’s free deployment tools

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:36:18 +0000

For what it is worth, I just found the download link for WAIK http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7d4bc6d-15f3-4284-9123-679830d629f2&displaylang=en

Ian

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:47:58 +0000

By the way, if you refer to “server based profiles” as roaming profiles, those might not copy over automatically. Thats microsoft’s comment anyway. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905115.aspx

“But, in a migration from an older version of Windows to Windows Vista, this method might not work because the profile structure in Windows Vista is different than that of the source operating system.”

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:08:55 +0000

When EMC gave a 5 hour presentation on the new BDD 2007 last week the rep explainded the Final release of BDD 2007 will support XP and Vista. We should get new documentation for XP deployments at that time. This should be any day now till end of january i am assuming because they need to get it out before the release of Vista so companies can test it.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:53:31 +0000

You probably mean the ImageX tool which allows you to mount a WIM image. Then you can inject the mounted image with new drivers. I've know idea if this works with WIM images for XP. What kind of deployment solution do you use? There is a BDD version for XP. Check out this article for more information. Maybe that helps.

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:05:51 +0000

Thanks Michael!
What I am trying to do is put XP on various systems, and then be able to inject the drivers that go along with the system, along with the software needed. Is this much possible with BDD 2007 and XP? I have searched for anything that would help me with BDD 2007 and XP and can’t find anything. Everything I find shows only BDD 2007 with Vista. Does anyone know where I could find any documentation that would help me with deploying XP using BDD2007? or anything that could at least tell me the features that I can use if I am using XP instead of Vista?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:19:38 +0000

BDD 2007 is a collection of tools and documents. Some of the tools work with Windows XP. For example, Windows Deployment Services (WDS) can also be used to deploy XP.

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:43:29 +0000

Does BDD 2007 work with Windows XP instead of Vista??? Someone please let me know!!!!!!!

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