Greetings! Microsoft Press and TechNet Magazine have teamed up to create a free ebook: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine. The ebook includes ten complete chapters from Microsoft Press’s Windows 7 Resource Kit (ISBN: 9780735627000; ISBN: 1760 pages), by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team at Microsoft:

Chapter 3 Deployment Platform . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 4 Planning Deployment . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 5 Testing Application Compatibility . . . . . . . . . 139
Chapter 6 Developing Disk Images . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter 7 Migrating User State Data . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 8 Deploying Applications . . . . . . . . .  247
Chapter 9 Preparing Windows PE . . . . . . . . . 273
Chapter 10 Configuring Windows Deployment Services . . . . . . . . . 293
Chapter 11 Using Volume Activation . . . . . . . . . 335
Chapter 12 Deploying with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit . . . . . . . . . 355

It also includes six articles from TechNet Magazine:

Migrate Already! Why You Should Migrate to Windows 7 If You’re Still Waffling  . . . . . . . . . 383
Don Jones
8 Common Issues in Windows 7 Migrations. . . . . . . . . 387
Don Jones
9 Things You Should Know About Windows 7. . . . . . . . . 391
William Stanek
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Running Windows 7 in Mixed Environments . . . . . . . . . 397
William Stanek
Integrating Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. . . . . . . . . 403
Alan Maddison
The Good Computing Seal of Approval: Windows 7 Certification. . . . . . . . . 409
Joshua Hoffman

Over 400 pages of expert guidance; enjoy!