Friday, April 29, 2011

Windows 7 imaging

I've looked into couple of different imaging solution to plan, test and validate our process to migrate under 200 XP SP3 workstations to Windows 7.
I started with Synatec (good old ghost...), WAIK, Terabyte and few others.
Smart Deploy was the best product by far.
We installed SD on a physical box along with Vmware workstation. then created our base image as a virtual machine (remember? take the hardware components out of the equation...) then took a captured that vm into a 8GB USB key and went ahead to deploy the image...
Granted, small tweaks here and there, but overall it was as simple as that...
Good work Prowess...

Prowess SmartDeploy Eases Windows 7 Migration!


Here is a quick video to wrap it up