Building a Common Image

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Due to the high level of testing and qualification that goes into the image
preinstalled on HP products; HP recommends the following:
• Begin with the HP 8200 Elite preinstalled image as a base on which to build a
customized common image.
• If the pre-install image has been modified since delivery, create the System
Recovery restore DVDs and Supplemental Disk DVD from the Recovery
Manager / Recovery Disk Creation application installed on your 8200 Elite
system. This will restore the factory image to the hard drive. In addition, if the
operating system is Windows Vista or Windows 7, the product family may
support an F11 feature that will also restore the factory image to the hard
drive.
• If the first two options are not possible or preferable, a clean installation may
be performed using the method and media of choice.
This white paper will not guide you through the process of creating a new
operating system installation—such support can be found from the appropriate
Microsoft Windows operating system Resource Kit, Microsoft’s website, or other
Microsoft subscriptions. Refer to Microsoft documentation obtained through
appropriate channels.
This document does not discuss image capture, deployment, or management. Due
to the high number of infrastructures available for these processes, it will be left to
each customer to decide, research, and implement these portions of the imaging
process.
With Windows Vista Microsoft delivered a set of tools to update images without
having to install them. Below is a synopsis of the changes for Windows 7.
• ImageX—allows multiple images to be modified simultaneously. The
Windows Imaging API (WIMGAPI) is still available and is included in every
Windows 7 edition.
• DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management)—is the
consolidation of the offline management tools (including pkgmgr.exe and
intlcfg.exe) into a single tool. DISM supports logging, inventory commands,
offline INF driver package installation, direct application of MS update
packages, international settings, and PEImg support for WinPE.
• Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). The WAIK autorun page
contains links to the other Application Compatibility and Deployment toolkits.
WAIK is available at
www.microsoft.com.
Windows Licensing Notice
This document does not provide a license to create and/or distribute an operating
system image. This document is a technical resource for those with the proper
license to deploy Windows Vista/Windows 7 operating systems.
The operating system license shipped with HP PC’s does not grant re-imaging and
deployment rights. Before using the document to deploy an image, please contact
your Microsoft licensing representative to obtain the proper license agreements. HP
cannot be held liable if a customer uses this document to create or deploy an
image that violates Microsoft license agreements.