Injecting in a Disk Image

This section describes how to add applications to distribution points you build with MDT 2008, and then inject those applications into disk images or install them when deploying the disk image. If you’re not using MDT 2008 to build and deploy Windows Vista, see Chapter 4, to learn why using MDT 2008 is a better way to deploy Windows Vista than using the Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit alone.

When planning application deployment, you choose between three deployment strategies: thick image, thin image, and hybrid image, as we described earlier in this chapter. If you’re using a thin image strategy, you won’t be injecting applications into disk images. Instead, you’ll use a systems-management infrastructure such ...

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