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Here I will detail how to build a custom image of Windows 7 for Your company. Doing
this will give us a few new things:
1. A corporate build that will be the same across all divisions.
2. A way to know if a rouge build enters the company.
3. Having a common build will allow for better support no matter where an individual
is. Or simply put reduced Help Desk costs.
Preliminary Steps:
Install the Microsoft WAIK tool kit if not already installed on your PC. NOTE: Microsoft
does not recommend installing it on your Imaging server. If using Windows 7 you can
use dism (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) to en/disable features and
mount images. Open a cmd window as the local admin to use this tool. If using other
OSes perform the following, after installing WAIK so you can also use dism.
1. Mount it:
a. imagex /mountrw "f:\windows 7\sources\install.wim" 1 e:\win7wim
note that e and f are examples only
b. We will use mounted OS root drive for the remainder of the document
but in this example it would equal E:\win7wim.
2. Click HERE so you can use get and register DISM after mounting the image.
3. Unmount it:
a. imagex /unmount e:\win7wim
Expand/extract the Windows 7 ISO to a USB drive or location of your choice, Winrar
can do this nicely.
Modify extracted OS directory\sources\ background_cli.bmp to look like this. Why,
because it works with the install progress windows very nicely.
The $$ folder is equal to the windows folder and anything you put in there will go in the
%windir% folder of the new OS.
The $1 is considered the source drive (typically C:\) anything put in this folder will show
up on the root drive.
The $Docs folder is the users or Documents and Settings folder and anything place
here with show up either as a profile folder or an item in a profile.
$Progs is the Program Files Directory and again anything you put in here will show up in
the build in %Programfiles%.
Now to detail what is in each root folder, this will go in the order listed in the example
above.
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