ashleysmith55 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhithersay Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I Use MDT 2010create a base image and capture it, deploy it through MDT and it adds the drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 ^ he's talking about this:Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&=tm&id=25175 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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