Building a Common Image with Microsoft Windows 7 on HP Pro and Elite Desktop PCs 2012 Commercial Managed IT Models - Techical White Paper

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Appendix C: Glossary of Terms

Product Family—defined as a set of form-factor types within a numerically-defined series. For

example, the HP Elite 8300 product family consists of the convertible mini-tower, small form factor,

and ultra-small desktop form factor. While the ultra-small desktop form factor machines are

considered to be within a product family, their size could dictate some hardware differences

including possible chipset components. These differences in hardware components do not negate

the possibility of a common image; however, they do add risk and complexity.

Clean Install—for the purposes of this paper, defined as an image installed on a system using

operating system media.

Common Image—for the purposes of this paper, defined as an operating system image that

works across multiple hardware platforms such as the Elite 8300 and Pro 6300 products.

Identical Image—an operating system image that is deployed across machines of a single

product line, all using the exact same hardware options, or configuration. If you are creating an

Identical Image, you can disregard the section entitled “obtaining drivers for the product family.”

Driver Support—in a common image, includes the functionality that can be obtained via an INF-

based install of the driver by the operating system. This includes device recognition and basic

functionality. However, any functionality that is normally achieved by running a setup program will

not be available. For information on adding setup application processing, please see the section

titled “Customizing the Image.”

Reference Machine—term used to describe the system that is being used to perform work to

pool drivers, customize software and set OS options and parameters. This will be the machine from

which the image is captured.

ImageX—a Microsoft command-line tool for capturing, servicing, and applying Windows

Imaging Format (WIM) files, which are file-based Windows disk images used by Windows. In

addition to other tools, documentation and samples to enable the IT professional to perform

automated deployment of Windows 7, ImageX is available in the Microsoft Windows Automated

Installation Kit (WAIK) that is available from the Microsoft Download Center as a free download.

SYSPREP (System preparation tool)—a Microsoft tool that prepares the operating system for

imaging. This tool must be run before imaging a system and then deploying that image.

SYSPREP, as well as other useful documentation and tools, can be found on your operating system

CD obtained either from HP or Microsoft. SYSPREP is located in the SYSPREP folder at

%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\SYSPREP for Windows 7.