Summary
The Windows 7 deployment platform and tools will make deploying the operating system in your organization easier than deploying earlier versions of Windows. The .wim file format makes it possible to deploy highly compressed image files. Windows 7 helps reduce image count by removing hardware dependencies from the image. Modularization in Windows 7 makes servicing images easier than legacy methods so that you no longer have to apply, customize, and recapture an image to update it. The answer file format, Unattend.xml, provides a more flexible and consistent configuration. Finally, the deployment tools, DISM, ImageX, and Windows SIM, provide a robust way to create, customize, and manage Windows 7 images.
Although the Windows AIK 2.0 provides ...
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