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      eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista

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        1eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista

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        In the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) one of the first choices is to select which Windows Vista image files will be the base for the deployment answer file. There are currently seven choices.

        2eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista – Cannot Find the Catalog File for Windows Vista Business

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        Following the guidance of a Microsoft Step-by-Step, we got stopped. Creating a catalog turned out to be a two-minute process.

        3eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista – Generating Catalog File

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        We generated a catalog for Vista so that we could proceed with the creation of the answer file.

        4eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista – Answer File 1

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        Selecting New Answer File in the File menu generates the components seen in the Answer File pane (upper middle).

        5eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista – Components Available for Modification

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        Here we see a list of 44 components that are available for use by an answer file for unattended installation of Windows Vista. Several of the components have submenus.

        6eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Windows System Image Manager for Vista – Vista Answer File Component Configuration

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        We drilled down to the CreatePartition component to tell the answer file to create a partition on the first pass of the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Win PE).

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