Windows 7 Deployment -By Bradley Lutes-

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1 Windows 7 Deployment -By Bradley Lutes- **These instructions are for the 32 bit system (x86). To find out if you are running the 32 bit or 64 bit, click on the start menu of your windows 7 virtual machine-- >Select Computer-->Select 'System Properties(at the top)-->next to 'System Type' in the middle, it should say 32 or 64 bit operating system. All of these instructions are for the 32 bit OS. If you are running the 64 bit OS, you will need to replace all instances of x86 with amd64 and all other instructions will be the same. 1) Create a Windows 7 Virtual Machine and Name it 'Fresh Install', give it a 60GB Hard Drive. 2) Start-->right click computer-->select 'manage' 3) Select Local Users and Groups-->Double Click on 'users' 4) Right click Administrator and select 'properties'-->uncheck 'Account Disabled' -->apply-->ok 5)Right click administrator and select 'set password' (If there is a pop-up warning, select 'proceed')-->set the password to P@ssw0rd (the 0 is a zero). 6) Better double check to make sure that your admin 'account disabled' box is still unchecked and that you have deleted all other users. Failure to ensure that this is done properly will start you back over at square one with a new Windows 7 Install. When you are finished, close out of the window. 7)Log Off Your virtual machine and log back in as administrator with the password that you just created. 8) Start-->right click computer-->select 'manage' 9) Select Local Users and Groups-->Double Click on 'users' 10) Right click any other users EXCEPT Administrator and Guest and delete them. New Steps... 1) Install Windows AIK: Right click on the virtual machine tab at the top-->select 'settings'-->click on cd/dvd Rom and browse for AIK ISO (It may have another name such as KB3AIK_EN)-->Select OK-->If autoplay doesn't run, select the start menu-->select Computer-->double click your CD ROM drive or d: drive-->if autoplay did start, select run startcd.exe-->a popup window should appear that

2 says "Windows Automated Installation Kit" (IF it didn't appear, go to start menu, computer, and double click your cd rom drive again-sometimes the autoplay doesn't function correctly)-->select Windows AIK SETUP(on the left)-->next-->i agree & next-->just me--next-->next-->wait... 2) Install VMware tools Some newer versions of vmware have the tools already installed. To check, right click the top of the virtual machine tab and if you see an 'uninstall vmware tools' or 'reinstall vmware tools' then you already have it, restart your machine and continue on to the next step. If you don't have it, select 'install vmware tools'-->typical-->finish-->restart 3) Click on the start menu and type 'windows update'. When you see it come up in the menu, click on it. On the left, click 'change settings'. From the dropdown menu select 'Check for updates but let me choose when to install them.'-->select ok. Windows will most likely tell you that you need to install an update in order to check for updates. If it does, go ahead and do this. Our eventual goal is to install the first service pack. So you may need to update, restart, and then follow the same path but instead of 'change settings' select check for updates and install. When you have installed the service pack, you are ready for the next step. Without the service pack, your deployment may fail. 4) Now we need to open the Deployment Tools Command Prompt(Part of AIK). To do that: Click the 'start' menu-->all programs-->microsoft AIK-->Right Click 'Deployment Tools Command Prompt" and select 'Run As Administrator' Ok, time to get down to the tough stuff...i'm going to space out these next steps because the most common problem that I have found is that students look down at their lab, type stuff on the command prompt, and then look down again and they read the wrong line because they are so close together and they look so similar. A little tip for your hands-on test: Write each step down on separate note cards and hold it up to the screen and compare before you press 'enter'. If you get this stuff wrong, and you hit enter, you may be starting over with a new windows 7 install. So...CHECK EACH LINE FOR ACCURACY BEFORE YOU PRESS THE ENTER KEY!! *Note-There is a little tip that sometimes works and may save you a lot of

3 headaches. Instead of typing out each of the lines in command prompt, type them into a wordpad txt file and save it on your real computer. After you have installed your vmware tools, you can drag a copy of the txt file into your vmware machine. Then select each line one at a time and copy (Ctrl + c) and right click the top of your command prompt and select 'edit'-->paste. It decreases the odds of messing up your deployment by entering typos. An even handier tip is to create a batch file but requires a little more research and knowledge. New Steps-type into the command prompt: 1) copype x86 c:\win7pe_x86 (Press enter after you have double checked)--> Notes: 1i Read endnote about copype. This command creates a directory structure of the PE build in the location you specified(c:\win7pe_x86). 2)copy c:\win7pe_x86\winpe.wim c:\win7pe_x86\iso\sources\boot.wim Notes: ii Read endnote about boot.wim. This command Copies the boot image file (Winpe.wim) to the c:\win7pe_x86\iso\sources\boot.wim folder and renames it. 3) copy "c:\program files\windows aik\tools\x86\imagex.exe" c:\win7pe_x86\iso Notes: This copies the ImageX.exe to the c:\win7pe_x86\iso folder. The quotations are required because of the spaces in the folder names.

4 4) Oscdimg -n -bc:\win7pe_x86\etfsboot.com c:\win7pe_x86\iso c:\win7pe_x86\win7pe_x86.iso Notes: DOUBLE CHECK BEFORE HITTING ENTER! This line is long and is really, really easy to miss a section or mistype. iii Read endnote below about Oscdimg. This combines all of the files and creates a sector-based image file with an.iso extension. 5) Now you can exit the command line window. 6) Copy the folder with all of the files you copied from the VM machine to the desktop on your real computer. The folder should be located in your c: drive and called win7pe_x86. Start-->Computer-->C: drive etc. Just drag it off of your screen and onto your desktop. Your desktop must be visible so restore down your

5 vmware machine. Sometimes you might feel like the file won't go past the edge of the screen and will take several attempts. If your file won't cross the vmware border, check to make certain that you have vmware tools installed. A few more steps need to be taken to prepare your computer: New steps: 1) Click the start menu-->type cmd in the search box-->right click on the command prompt program and select 'run as administrator'. Buckle your seatbelt because here we go: type in the following and double check for errors before you press enter. Sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown 8) DO NOT BOOT BACK UP! Your pc is now ready to be imaged. New Steps... 1) Right click on top tab of your virtual machine and select 'settings'-->add a second hard drive by clicking on the 'add' button at the bottom and following the

6 steps you normally take to add a hard drive: Select 'hard drive'-->create new virtual disk-->ide-->maximum Disk Size 40GB & Store as single file-->rename this drive " Captured Image.vmdk" (without the quotes). -->Finish&Ok New Steps... 1) Right click on top tab of your virtual machine and select 'settings'-->select the cd/dvd icon and browse for your win7pe_x86 folder that you stored on your desktop. -->Select the iso file win7pe_x86.-->ok 2)Right click on top tab of your virtual machine and select 'power on to bios' 3) Arrow over to 'boot'-->arrow down to CD-ROM drive-->hit + sign (or shift +) until CD-ROM is at the top (Sets the boot order to DVD-ROM first.) 4) After saving (F10)and exiting BIOS, make sure your Fresh Install virtual machine boots from DVD...it should boot to the PE Environment. VERY QUICKLY-->get ready to press any key to boot from CD! Now, time to prepare our new hard drive to accept our image. New Steps... 1)Type: Diskpart (enter) 2) Type: List Disk 3) Look for a drive with 40GB of free space. This is the empty drive we will be preparing.-->type: Select disk "enter the number of the disk with the free spacewithout the quotations" Example: Select disk 1(if 1 was the disk with 40GB free space) 4) Type: Clean 5) Type: Create partition primary 6) Type: Select Partition 1 7) Type: Format quick fs=ntfs label="captured Image"

7 8)Type: Assign 9)Type: Active 10)Type: List volume 11) Get a pen and paper and write down your drive letters that are assigned to your hard drive. You will need to know these in a bit. You should have them listed like this: CDROM = Fresh Install = Captured Image = 12) Type: exit -->(enter) New Steps... 1) Type the letter of the drive that is associated with your CDROM drive and then :

8 for instance, if you CDROM drive is e, then type e: -->enter (Do not hit enter on step two until you have read the warning underneath that step) 2) Imagex /capture d: f:\win7.wim "win7" /verify STOP! Before you hit enter, make sure that 'd' is whatever letter you wrote down for your Fresh Install (has 59GB), and that 'f' is whatever letter you wrote down for your Captured Image(has 39GB). wait...(this step may take a while to complete)

9 3) Power off the machine. (When Imagex is finished) 4) Create a new virtual machine called "Deployed Image". Give it a 55GB Hard Drive. Follow all the steps you normally would take but don't put in an iso and don't install windows7. Just leave it powered off when finished. Right click on the top tab and select 'settings'-->add hard drive, but instead of 'creating a new virtual disk', select 'use existing virtual disk' browse for your Captured Image HDD file --usually in c:\users\student(or student name)\documents\virtual machineswith a.vmdk extension-->finish Your vm machine should look like this: 5)While you are in the settings for "Deployed Image", select the cd/dvd icon and browse and select your windowspe iso (on your desktop). 6) Right click on the tab at the top of 'deployed image' and power on to bios. 7) Change the boot order to boot from DVD/CD-ROM.

10 8) After saving (F10)and exiting BIOS, make sure your virtual machine boots from DVD...it should boot to the PE Environment. VERY QUICKLY-->get ready to press any key to boot from CD! New Steps...(Sometimes it takes a moment before the command prompt will display and allow you to type) 1) Type: Diskpart 2) Type: List Disk 3)Look for the number of the disk with the free space. Use that number and type the following command. 4)Type: Select disk # (Enter your disk number from step 3-no parenthesis, no#) 5)Type: Clean 6) Type: Create partition primary 7)Type: Select partition 1

11 8)Type: Format quick fs=ntfs label="deployed Image" wait... 9)Type: Assign 10)Type: Active 11)Type: List Volume 12) Get a pen and paper and note which letter is the CD-ROM drive, captured image drive, and deployed image drive. 13) Type: Select volume # (Captured Image's-(not your 'deployed image')drive letter-no parenthesis, no#)(enter) 14) Type: Assign letter=h(enter) 15) Type: Select Volume (deployed image's drive letter-no parenthesis)(enter) 16) Type: Assign letter=c(enter) 17) Type: Exit(enter) New Steps... 1)Which ever drive you have written down as your CD-ROM drive, type it followed by a colon and press enter. (Example, if my CD-ROM drive said C, I would type in C: ) 2) Move to step three and type what is printed and hit enter. 3) Imagex /apply h:\win7.wim "win7" c:

12 New Steps... 1) Type: Diskpart 2) Type: Select volume c 3) Type: Active 4) Type: Exit New Steps... 1) Type: Bcdboot c:\windows 2) Type: Wpeutil shutdown 3) Right click on the top tab of your "Deployed Image" machine-->settings--> -->Remove your "Captured Image" drive(don't remove the wrong drive-(it should have 40GB). Click on the drive to see the name of the drive in the upper right corner).

13 4) Right click on upper tab and 'Power on to bios' your "Deployed Image" Virtual Machine. 5)Change to the boot order to boot from hard drive and press f10 to save the changes. Then, touch nothing and let windows boot from the hard drive. You should see windows booting up and finally showing the Out Of Box Experience. 6) If you were successful, pat yourself on the back and have a cookie. Then get back to work and practice it again. 7) If you were not successful, pout for a couple of minutes. Stomp the floor if you need to. Then try to figure out where you went wrong and try it again. i "The Copype tool creates a working directory that contains a standard set of Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) files. You use these files to customize images and (together with the Makewinpemedia script) to create bootable media." - ii " The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format. It was developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows Vista and subsequent versions of Windows operating system family..." "Like other disk image formats, a WIM file contains a set of files and associated filesystem metadata. However, unlike sector-based formats (such as ISO or VHD), WIM is file-based: The fundamental unit of information in a WIM is a file. "The primary advantages of being file-based is hardware independence and single-instance storage of a file referenced multiple times in the filesystem tree. Since the files are stored inside a single WIM file, the overhead of opening and closing many individual files is reduced. The cost of reading or writing many thousands of individual files on the local disk is negated by hardware and software-based disk caching as well as sequential reading and writing of the data. "WIM files can contain multiple disk images, which are referenced either by their numerical index or by their unique name. Due to the use of single-instance storage, the more each successive disk image has in common with previous images added to the WIM file, the less new data will be added. A WIM can also be split (spanned) into multiple parts, which have the.swm extension."

14 "WIM images can be made bootable. Windows boot loader supports booting Windows from within a WIM file. Windows Setup DVD in Windows Vista and later use such WIM files. In this case, BOOT.WIM contains a bootable version of Windows PE from which the installation is performed. Other setup files are held in the INSTALL.WIM." "ImageX is the command-line tool used to create, edit and deploy Windows disk images in the Windows Imaging Format. It is distributed as part of the free Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). Starting with Windows Vista, Windows Setup uses the WAIK API to install Windows." "As of Windows 8, ImageX is replaced by another tool called DISM (Deployment Image Service and Management Tool).[2] DISM is used to retrieve or modify information within an image.[3] Its features include mounting and unmounting images, querying installed device drivers in an offline image, and adding a device driver to an offline image." "Just like ImageX, DISM can mount a WIM image as a new volume and assign a drive letter to it, so that its contents can be read or modified on the fly.[4] A set of public APIs for manipulating WIMs allows developers to write their own tools for WIM." - iii "Oscdimg is a command-line tool for creating an image file (.iso) of a customized 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows PE. You can then burn that.iso file to a CD- ROM or DVD-ROM. Oscdimg supports ISO 9660, Joliet, and Universal Disk Format (UDF) file systems."- "Merely copying the.iso file to the CD-ROM will not work. To create a bootable CD-ROM, you must use CD-recording software that unpacks the.iso file and burns it to a CD-ROM."-