Welcome
BDD 2007, as you probably already know, is End-to-end guidance, best practices, and tools for planning, building, and deploying Windows and Office. BDD 2007 is developed by a team led by Michael Niehaus (lead developer) and Mike Lewis (Architect).
This guide explains the necessary steps to use the Lite Touch Component of BDD 2007. It assumes that you have set up the BDD 2007 deployment server as described in “Geeks Guide to BDD 2007 – Part 1, Core Configuration”.
For improvement suggestions (or bugs) in this guide, please drop a note to johan [dot] arwidmark [at] truesec [dot] com, at myitforum.com (alias jarwidmark) or post in the public Microsoft newsgroups (group: microsoft.public.deployment.desktop)
If you want to learn more, check out my public BDD 2007 classes, or bring me onsite to teach at your company location. Go http://www.truesec.com for more info.
Regards,
Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP – Setup & Deployment
The guide covers the following steps
o Create and Capture a Vista Reference Machine for LiteTouch
o Use Lite Touch to Install a new Computer
o Use Lite Touch to Refresh a Computer
To complete the lab, you need the following virtual machines
· SRV001 (Domain Controller for tslab.net)
· PC0001 (Windows XP SP2, 512 MB of RAM)
Step 1 – Create and Capture a Vista Reference Machine
Create a Vista Reference Machine
1. On SRV001, copy the D:\Distribution\Boot\LiteTouchPE_x86.iso file to Z:\Diskimages (C:\Diskimages on the Host PC).
2. Create a new Virtual Machine with 512 MB RAM, name it Vista LT Reference and boot from the LiteTouchPE_x86.iso file.
3. Complete the BDD Deployment Wizard using the below settings
a. Keyboard Layout: United States
b. Specify credentials for connecting to network shares:
i. User name: BuildAccount
ii. Password: P@ssw0rd
iii. Domain: TSLAB
c. Computer name: (Default)
d. Join a workgroup: Workgroup
e. Specify whether to restore user data: Do not restore user data and settings
f. Select an operating system image to install: Windows Vista Enterprise.
g. Locale Selection: English (United States)
h. Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
i. Select one or more applications to install: Microsoft Word Viewer 2003.
j. Specify whether to capture an image: Capture an image of this computer
i. Location: \\SRV001\Distribution$\Captures
ii. File name: VistaEnterpriseLT.wim
k. Review the Details before clicking Begin.
4. After installing the base Vista operating system and the Word Viewer application, BDD will automatically run sysprep and capture the computer to an image.
Step 2 – Add the previously captured LT image
Add Windows Vista installation files to the BDD Workbench
1. On SRV001, using the Deployment Workbench,, expand the Distribution node, right-click on the Operating Systems node, and select New (Or Click New from the Actions pane). Use the following settings for the New Os Wizard.
a. Custom Image File
b. Source file: D:\Distribution\Captures\VistaEnterpriseLT.wim
i. Move the files to the distribution share instead of copying them
c. Destination directory name: Vista Enterprise LT
Add another Build
2. Using the Deployment Workbench, right-click on the Builds node, and select New (Or Click New from the Actions pane). Use the following settings for the New Build Wizard.
a. Build ID: VistaEnterpriseLT
b. Build name: Windows Vista Enterprise LT
c. Build comment: Company Standard LT Build
d. Operating System Image: CDrive in “VistaEnterpriseLT\VistaEnterpriseLT.wim”
e. ProductKey: Do not specify a product key at this time
f. Organization: TrueSec
g. FullName: TrueSec