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Running Deployment Scripts Using DTK and Microsoft Windows PE 75

Running Deployment Scripts Using

DTK and Microsoft Windows PE

This chapter provides best practices, procedures, and scenarios for using the

Deployment Toolkit (DTK) to perform pre-operating system configuration

tasks and to install supported operating systems on supported Dell systems.

After you have populated the deployment directory structure with all

necessary files and carefully edited the deployment scripts and configurations

files, you are ready to begin the final stage of the deployment process. Before

running the deployment, however, you need to create specific deployment

media to facilitate your chosen deployment method. The common

deployment scenarios are:

• Media-based local deployment

• Media-based local deployment with networking enabled

• Using a third-party deployment solution framework

For the media-based deployment methods, you begin by creating and

customizing Microsoft Windows PE for Dell systems.

Creating and Customizing Images for

Windows PE 2.0

If you are using Windows PE 2.0, download

Windows Automated Installation Kit

(Windows AIK) from the Microsoft website at

microsoft.com

. By default, Windows

AIK is copied to the

C:\Program Files\Windows AIK

directory.

NOTE: DTK 3.2 for 64-bit systems supports only Windows PE 2.0.