Capturing Custom Images

Windows DS can deploy more than just default images from the Windows Vista media. You can create custom boot images and install images and then import them into Windows DS for automated distribution. Chapter 9 describes how to create custom Windows PE boot images. After creating a custom image, you can import it using the instructions in the section titled "Importing Images" earlier in this chapter.

To create a custom installation image for Windows DS, you must first install an existing image on a destination computer, customize it, and then capture the destination computer. Image capture is a two-step process. First, you must create a Windows PE capture image to support for the image-capture process. Then you capture an ...

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