Hardware Independent Image

[ashleysmith55]

Hi everyone,

I have been asked to create a hardware independent Windows7 image for our desktops and laptops. Does anybody have any insight into the best way to do this and the best practice etc.. I know about WIM files and apparently Ghost can create hardware independent images these days. How?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Ashley

[IcemanND]

Unlike Windows XP, Windows 7 is already pretty hardware independent.

I personally build all of my images in a VM using VMWare workstation. I install and ocnfigure it the way I want, add the drivers I need for our systems to a subfolder of c:\windows\inf and sysprep and capture.

So far I have not had anyone tell me they had a machine it would not deploy to, the images I have created this way are deployed to over 2500 systems and not image related issues.

[jhithersay]

I Use MDT 2010

create a base image and capture it, deploy it through MDT and it adds the drivers

[tain]

^ he's talking about this:

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1

https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&=tm&id=25175