To create an OS image installation CDROM
in the SMS Administrator console, rightclick
Image Packages and choose All Tasks,
Create Operating System Image Installation
CD. The Operating System Image Installation
CD Wizard launches. On the Installation
settings page, ensure the only two options
selected are Allow installation of Operating
System Packages from SMS Distribution Points
and Automatically choose the OS Package
to install by running a custom program or a
script, and click Next. On the Install from SMS
distribution points page, choose Vista Ultimate,
Next. On the Automatically select Operating
System Package page, for File name, enter
\\Server1\ZTI$\ZeroTouchInstallation.vbs, for
Arguments enter /debug:true, then supply the
User name and Password for the user account
that has full control over all of the SMS and
BDD files (domainname\username) and click Next. On the Windows PE settings page accept
the defaults and click Next. Then, on the Create
Image page, type in the name VistaOSDCD
and the filename VistaOSDInstall. Click Finish
to create a VistaOSDInstall.iso that can be
burned to a CD-ROM that you can use to boot
a bare-metal machine.
To perform a PXE boot and connect to a
WDS server, you’ll add your ZeroTouchInstall.
wim (this is created automatically when you
create your BDD deployment point) to a WDS
server. There is one caveat when it comes to
ZTIs and WDS integration: The WDS server
must be compatible with the older version
of WDS called Remote Installation Services
(RIS). To have a compatible WDS server, you
must first install RIS (go to Control Panel, Add
or Remove Programs, Windows Components,
and scroll down to RIS), then upgrade using
the WINDOWS-DEPLOYMENT-SERVICESUPDATE-
X86.EXE hotfix found in the WDS
folder of Windows Automated Installation Kit
(WAIK). If you’ve already upgraded your server’s
OS to XP Pro SP2, you no longer have the
option to install RIS. So, if you want to exercise
the PXE boot option for ZTIs on bare-metal
machines, I suggest that before you upgrade all
of your servers to XP Pro SP2, you retain one to
install RIS on.
Upgrading or Refreshing the Target Machines
What happens on the target machines? In
an upgrade scenario, BDD runs a ZTIPrereq.
wsf script. This script confirms that a target
machine is running an upgradable OS (XP Pro
SP2 or later, Windows 2000 Professional SP4). It
also checks for the following installed software:
SMS Advanced Client for SMS 2003 SP2, Windows
Script Host 5.6 or later, Microsoft Core
XML Services 3.0 (MSXML), and Microsoft
Data Access Components 2.0 (MDAC). After
the ZTIPrereq.wsf script determines that the
minimum requirements are met, the ZTIValidate.
wsf script runs to ensure there are enough
resources available to deploy the new OS.
These resources include 512MB of RAM and
enough hard disk space for the image to be
deployed. It also makes sure that the current
OS isn’t a server OS. In a refresh scenario, the
ZTIValidate.wsf script requires that the current
OS has been installed on the C partition and
that the C partition is the first partition on the
first disk of the target computer.