Comments on: Loading applications into a Windows 7 installation bundle

By: Featured Member: Pjb0222 - ITKE Community Blog

Featured Member: Pjb0222 - ITKE Community Blog — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:54:23 +0000

[...] Loading applications into a Windows 7 installation bundle [...]

By: pjb0222

pjb0222 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:44:18 +0000

The first step to this is to check with your application vendor to determine if your application is a candidate for adding to your image. Some applications do not handle this well! Other applications require special options to be set during installation or anonymization after the install. In some cases, you may need to set user options during the first user login (add a script to the default user runonce key and remember these need to work as a standard user).

What I find for some items (managed AV can be one of them) is to set the image to auto login as administrator and run the installations. This can be set to reboot as many times as needed to install items. For Windows 7 I need to reboot back into adminstrator once to complete all the setups.

Items such as Office 2010 (Office was made image aware in Off 2007 and required a command line option prior to that) can be added to the “gold” image.

By: sixball

sixball — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:15:03 +0000

(takes notes)

Great Links y’all…

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:44:13 +0000

Good point Troy. In previous Windows versions I think imaging was not an option when different hardware combinations were involved, but that is not the case anymore. Choosing an Image Strategy and Building Windows 7 System Images

By: rechil

rechil — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:43:03 +0000

Thanks, Carlosdl, for the link

By: labnuke99

labnuke99 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:07:49 +0000

Isn’t this just like using a master or “gold” image? Create a master image and then use that to build new systems. Update the image as needed and new machines would then have the same config.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:29:38 +0000

@Rechil, take a look: Slipstreaming Hardware Drivers The link is about slipstreaming drivers, but it can be done with windows updates/patches as well. Now, TeachMeIT would like to add third party applications. Maybe you can find a link to help him out.

By: sixball

sixball — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:16:36 +0000

building MSI files to basically script the installs is another great way to push multiple applications to client machines. Great place to start is HERE

By: rechil

rechil — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:39:34 +0000

“like slipstreaming updates but applications“…. would u like to clear this once again !