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The steps for deploying a native VHD boot are the same as if you are using a third party imaging solution, such as Ghost. Effectively, copying a VHD is a kind of third party imaging solution, in that it is not a directly supported deployment scenario for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, its predecessor Business Desktop…

The first time startup with the sysprepped VHD went reasonably well until an error message was displayed: After that the system was stuck in an endless loop of displaying messages which basically said “Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation”. Then the system would restart and, you…

OK so we start up Windows System Image Manager (WSIM) and create a deployment share, which is in my Setup share (where all the other setup files and images are stored). AIK uses something similar to MDT; as far as I can tell, MDT adds a few folders to a basic AIK deployment share. I’ve…

My first test was to set up the target computer with its hard disk and boot environment and copy the VHD directly from the VM to the target and then boot. This was successful; the main issues being the missing Sysprep and driver injection stages. Since then, thinking about it overnight, I have decided I…

Having discussed this lengthily in a previous series of posts it’s time to start working on a real world implementation – and by the way, happy new year! The following steps should be those needed to set up a Native Boot VHD from scratch: Develop the image Create a new VHD and attach it to…