Has anyone looked at the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or at the OSD feature in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007? Through these you can supposedly achieve either lite touch or zero touch Windows 7 installs, either from scratch or from immages. I've seen OSD work in a very controlled lab setting, but not in production. However, I read posts on the SCCM listservs all the time that this is very difficult to set up, but once its working in your environment its really sweet. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of chris hallsworth Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:40 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Imaging Windows 7 I image Windows 7 using its own image backup tool with no problems. My images go to a separate partition on my 320GB portable hard drive. Chris Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: christopherh40@googlemail.com MSN: ch9675@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 On 05/05/2010 10:07, Barry Toner wrote:
Folks,
What are you either in work or at home imaging your win 7 boxes with?
That you can restore, I know I know, that's always the killer, without sighted help.
I was using True Image for XP back when, but have found it very crashy under Win 7 and accessibility appears to be broke in it's latest version.
The Windows 7 backup tool, despite having an Imager scares me. I'm not sure if it's a true sys image, and also it's throwing all sorts of annoying errors up here when I point it to a backup drive I have in a USB hub.
So I'm looking a backup tool that will do Images, and if I have access to the OS will let me log in, and run the backup, it reboots and comes back up after a period with a re-imaged screen. True Image would do this and do it very nicely.
Thanks, Barry.
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