[轉貼]Art of OEM - a guide to nLite and best OEM practice

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Art of OEM - a guide to nLite and best OEM practice
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Forum

Introduction

During the last two years, I've been making research to improve my OEM skills. From the data I have gathered, I decided to write this guide so that you all can get closer to that particular windows desktop / server experience you wanted for months (and I know you do, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this).

Thanks to nuhi, this process got a lot shorter than how it would have been back in 2003. OEM Partners now have several good instruments, namely Business Desktop Deployment and System Management Server. But none covers the area that nLite does so good. So, you will learn here how you can use nLite to create the best customizations you wanted.

- Part 1 covers the creation of your base install. In it you will learn how to create a lab environment, personalize Windows with nLite and test it in a controlled environment.

- Part 2 covers Microsoft Sysprep and resealing to make it ready for the end-user.

- Part 3 covers my research concerning imaging and V2P (virtual-to-physical) migration and imaging, the reverse process for VMware P2V.

- Part 4 covers various means of deploying the customized OS, using the Codename Panther setup engine.

Credits

Written and original V2P research by Dexter Inside, MCSE, OEM Partner. Virtual Research Group ltd. hereby grants you to freely use this text for whatever purposes you see fit. Proper credits would be appreciated though.

Special thanks go to:

- Microsoft Research, good job on WIM and happy 15th anniversary
- Windows Home Server Insider Program members, for critical feedback
- Server 2008 Development Team, for their great documentation
- VMware Workstation 6, excellent beta and support