eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Universal Imaging Utility 3.0

UIU automatically generated command-line parameters to make subsequent installations more convenient.

UIU 3.0 start-up offers convenient ways to download necessary files, including the Sysprep utility from Microsoft.

The power of one button starts the process of preparing a single image for many machines.

We followed UIUs advice and made backup images of the reference system.

UIU maker Big Bang is constantly adding updated PnP driver data that we downloaded to our image deployment server, in this case from Altiris.

We had already downloaded the latest updates (see previous slide), so we skipped this step.

We didnt need SCSI driver support in our environment so we skipped this step, heeding the UIU warning that adding support for these devices would add unnecessary time to our subsequent imaging jobs.

We used the sysprep.exe and setupcl.exe that came with our volume license version of Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

We provided user information for our machines and directed UIU to give each machine a unique computer name.

We directed UIU to use Sysprep to put our newly imaged machines in a workgroup.

We provided our volume license key so that it wouldnt be requested during the Windows installation process.

UIU handled setting various time and display options.

We used the default settings provided by UIU in the advanced options settings.

UIU completed the rest of the image preparation steps and closed down our reference system at the end of the process.