front cover -- copyright -- table of contents -- front matter -- Foreword -- Why this book? -- Intended audience -- Acknowledgments -- body -- 1 Concepts of Deployment -- 1.1 Computer deployment -- 1.2 Deployment methods and technologies -- 1.2.1 Manual instalations and upgrades -- 1.2.2 Unattended instalations -- 1.2.3 The Sysprep method -- 1.2.4 Imaging -- 1.2.5 Remote Instalation Services -- 2 The Big Picture -- 2.1 Remote Installation Services Windows services -- 2.2 DHCP -- 2.3 PXE -- 2.4 BINLSVC -- 2.5 TFTP -- 2.6 SIF -- 2.7 OSC files -- 2.8 Summary -- 3 Installing Remote Installation Services Server -- 3.1 Remote Installation Services server requirements -- 3.1.1 Software and services requirements -- 3.1.2 Hardware requirements (single server specification) -- 3.1.3 Client computer hardware requirements -- 3.2 DHCP configuration -- 3.3 Installing Remote Installation Services -- 3.3.1 Install Remote Installation Services service -- 3.3.2 Configure Remote Installation Services -- 3.4 Other configuration options -- 3.5 Additional images -- 3.6 Unattended Remote Installation Services image installation -- 3.7 Verifying Remote Installation Services -- 3.8 Check the SIF and apply standard modifications -- 3.9 Summary -- 4 Client Installation -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 The flow in RIS installations -- 4.2.1 Open ports in the process -- 4.3 Client installation -- 4.4 Verifying the client installations -- 4.5 Verifying drivers -- 4.6 Common errors -- 4.7 Summary -- 5 Slipstreaming, RBFG, and Group Policy -- 5.1 Slipstreaming -- 5.2 Remote Boot Floppy Generator (RBFG) -- 5.2.1 How it works -- 5.2.2 How to create the RBFG disk -- 5.2.3 Network chipset supported by RIS boot disk -- 5.3 RIS Group Policy -- 5.4 Summary -- 6 The Setup Information File -- 6.1 SIF architecture and functionality -- 6.2 SIF directory -- 6.3 How the SIF works.

6.4 SIF best practices -- 6.5 Editing default SIF keys and values -- 6.5.1 The Data section -- 6.5.2 The SetupData section -- 6.5.3 The Unattended section -- 6.5.4 The UserData section -- 6.5.5 The GuiUnattended section -- 6.5.6 The Display section -- 6.5.7 The Networking, Identification, and RemoteInstall sections -- 6.5.8 The OSChooser section -- 6.6 Optional sections -- 6.6.1 The Components section -- 6.6.2 The GUIRunOnce section -- 6.6.3 The RegionalSettings section -- 6.6.4 The TapiLocation section -- 6.7 Reference material -- 6.8 Summary -- 7 Setup Manager -- 7.1 Installing Setup Manager -- 7.2 Inside Setup Manager -- 7.3 Changes in the SIF -- 7.4 Summary -- 8 Using RIPrep -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 Prerequisites -- 8.3 Making an RIPrep image -- 8.4 Changing the SIF -- 8.5 Verifying the RIPrep image -- 8.6 Summary -- 9 Prestaging -- 9.1 How it works -- 9.2 How to find the GUID number -- 9.3 Setup prestaging -- 9.4 Enabled prestaging on the RIS server -- 9.5 Finding prestaged computers in the Active Directory -- 9.6 Summary -- 10 Move and Backup of RIS Servers -- 10.1 Move RIS images between volumes -- 10.2 Moving RIS images between servers -- 10.3 Moving RIS servers between domains -- 10.4 Backup and restore of RIS servers -- 10.5 Summary -- 11 Understanding and Identifying Devices and Drivers -- 11.1 Understanding driver inclusion -- 11.2 Drivers included with Microsoft Windows -- 11.3 What is OEM? -- 11.4 Including OEM drivers in the installation -- 11.5 Identifying devices and drivers -- 11.5.1 The trial-and-error method -- 11.5.2 The use-the-preload method -- 11.6 Identifying unknown devices using the registry -- 11.7 Driver file essentials -- 11.7.1 What's in a driver? -- 11.7.2 Catalog files -- 11.8 Other files and folder structures -- 11.9 Setup.exe programs -- 11.10 Extracting drivers -- 11.11 Multiple device support -- 11.12 Summary.

12 Creating and Understanding the OEM Structure -- 12.1 OEM subfolders and their functionality -- 12.1.1 \OEM\textmode -- 12.1.2 \OEM\ -- 12.1.3 \OEM\1 -- 12.1.4 \OEM\[drive letter] -- 12.1.5 \OEM\\Help -- 12.1.6 \OEM\\System32 -- 12.1.7 \OEM\1\Sysprep -- 12.2 File and driver distribution example -- 12.3 Finalizing the distribution point -- 12.4 Converting short file names to long file names by using Rename.txt -- 12.5 The 1 folder structure best practices -- 12.5.1 The image logistical approach -- 12.5.2 The "one-image-fits-all" logistical approach -- 12.6 Summary -- 13 Driver Inclusion -- 13.1 Adding the driver files -- 13.2 Configuring the answer file to reflect your drivers -- 13.3 The driver matching process -- 13.4 Network adapters -- 13.5 Audio, video, and modem drivers -- 13.6 Chipset drivers and USB devices -- 13.7 How to use the txtsetup.oem file to integrate SCSI and RAID adapters -- 13.7.1 Explanation of the answer file sections -- 13.7.2 Configuring the RAID -- 13.8 Adding an OEM Hardware Abstraction Layer -- 13.9 Installing the HAL -- 13.10 Multiple mass-storage devices and/or HALs -- 13.11 Driver placement sequence -- 13.12 Summary -- 14 Deploying Files and Software -- 14.1 General -- 14.2 Silent installations -- 14.3 Using cmdlines -- 14.4 Using GuiRunOnce -- 14.5 Deploying and executing scripts -- 14.6 Deploying and using registry keys -- 14.7 Adding printers -- 14.7.1 Using rundll32 -- 14.7.2 Using VBScript and WMI -- 14.8 Summary -- 15 Working with OSC files -- 15.1 Overview -- 15.2 Custom OSC files -- 15.3 Standard OSC files -- 15.4 Supported OSCML tags -- 15.5 Reserved OSC variables -- 15.6 Common OSC error files -- 15.7 Summary -- back matter -- A Components -- B GuiUnattended -- C Unattended -- D UserData -- index.