Huntsville NT User Group meeting on Monday - New Vista Deployment tools
Join HUNTUG on Monday August 20th, 2007, beginning at 6:00 PM at the Intergraph Corporation Building 15b Auditorium. Rhonda Layfield will present -'New Vista Deployment Tools -The Good, The Bad and the Undocumented.' As usual, there will be free pizza, soft drinks, and some very special door prizes. This meeting is sponsored by Telerik.
With the launch of Vista comes the arrival of new deployment tools that will make rolling out Vista (and other OSes) easier than ever before. The good news is the deployment tools are free, flexible to fit the needs of any environment and incredibly powerful. The bad news is they are not very intuitive, in fact at first glance they can be quite overwhelming. Let Rhonda give you your first look at how simple it is to create a custom Windows PE and a .XML answer file using Windows System Image Manager (WSIM). Learn what ImageX can do for you. And lastly the Windows Deployment Service (WDS) (WDS replaces RIS) is quick and easy to setup -- if you know a few undocumented steps. In this session you will get the benefit of learning what not to do so you don't make simple mistakes in your setup that can cause days of frustration.
Rhonda Layfield has been in the IT community for over 25 years. She began her IT career in the US Navy as a communications specialist holding a top secret clearance. She is now an independent consultant and trainer who develops and teaches her own curriculum on Various Microsoft and VMWare Technologies. Rhonda has a passion for learning products at the packet level and sharing that knowledge in her classes with some of the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. Some of which include Dow Jones, the US Airforce, the US Army, IBM, Bank of America, Wachovia, Bell Atlantic and EDS. She is currently an NT/2000/2003 MCSE and MCT. Along with teaching she enjoys presenting at national conferences (Techmentor, Windows Connections and Technet Europe) and contributing articles to Redmond and Windows ITPro magazines and is also a co-author of Mastering Windows Server 2003 Upgrade Edition for SP1 & R2.
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