Windows XP Professional

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Windows XP Professional

• Part 1
• Installing and Deploying
• Windows XP
• By Jeffrey M. Cole

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Introduction

• Who am I?
• What is different about this class from others?
• Why am I doing this?
• Where did I come from?

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Installing and Deploying Windows XP

• Windows Family Breakdown
• Installation Methods
• Attended Installation
• Unattended Installation
• Remote Installation Service
• Updating Windows XP
• Uninstalling Windows XP
• Odds and Ends

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Windows Family Breakdown

• Regular Windows Family
• Windows 1-3.51
• Windows 98
• Windows ME
• Windows NT Family
• Windows NT
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Home Edition
• Professional Edition

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Installation Methods

• Attended Installations
• Unattended Installations
• Remote Installation Services

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System Requirements

• CPU 233 MHz
• RAM 64MB
• DISK 650 free with minimum of 1.5GIG drive
• VIDEO Super VGA (800 x 600)
• PERIPHEALS Keyboard, Mouse, CD drive

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Attended Installations

• Clean Installation (WINNT.EXE)
• CD Based Installation
• Network Based Installation
• Upgrade (WINNT32.EXE) 98 and higher
• Dynamic Updates
• WINNT32 /CheckUpgradeOnly

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Attended Installations

• File Systems
• FAT
• NTFS
• Additional Components
• Add/Remove Programs
• Support Tools
• Recovery Console (WINNT32 /CMDCONS)

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Unattended Installation

• Unattended Installation
• Answer Files Installation Template
• Setup Manager
• Unattend.txt
• CD Based Install (Winnt.sif)
• /U
• Uniqueness Database Files System Unique
  Information
• /UDF

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Unattended Installation

• Imaging
• Sysprep.exe
• Sysprep.inf
• Factory.exe
• Ghost

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Remote Installation Service

• Server Side Requirements
• DHCP
• DNS
• Active Directory
• Non-System Partition
• Single Instance Storage (SIS)
• Multiple images one base set

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Remote Installation Service

• Client Side Requirements
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) enabled NIC
• Hardware Compatibility List Compliant
• Remote Boot Floppy Generator (RBFG)

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Remote Installation Service

• Creating Images
• RISETUP.exe
• CD Based Image
• RIPREP.exe
• Computer Based Image
• Permissions
• Set on answer files not image directory.

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Self-Assessment

• Whats the difference between Sysprep.exe and
  Riprep.exe?

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Updating Windows XP

• Service Pack Deployment
• Manual Installation
• Group Policies
• Slipstreaming (update.exe /s)

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Updating Windows XP

• Hotfixes
• Multiple without reboot (Qchain.exe)
• Automatic Updates
• Download automatically and notify when ready to
  install.
• Notify before downloading and notify before
  installing
• Turn them off all together

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Self-Assessment

• What is slipstreaming and why would you want to
  do it?

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Rolling Back Windows XP

• Must upgrade from Windows ME or Windows 98
• Must be formatted as FAT
• Apps added or removed since install act funky.

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Odds and Ends

• Workgroups VS Domains
• User State Migration Tool (USMT)
• File and Settings Transfer (FAST)
• USMT Command line tools
• Scanstate.exe
• Loadstate.exe
• Product Activations

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Key Concepts

• System Requirements
• WINNT VS WINNT32
• /CMDCONS
• /CheckUpgradeOnly
• File System Types
• Answer File
• UDF
• Sysprep

• SIS
• PXE
• Riprep and RISETUP
• Slipstreaming
• Qchain.exe
• Dynamic VS Automatic Updates
• USMT
• FAST

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Recommended Labs

• Sybex
• Exercise 1.1
• Exercise 2.2

• Exam Cram
• UDF and Answer file creation pg.30
• Installing RIS pg.37