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I am somewhat new to DS 7.1 and am very familiar with DS 6.9. I know that the HII capabilities of 6.9 were limited. My question is since 7.1 wants to Sysprep what does the driver library look like in DS 7.1 Does it include more devices like video, sound, USB chip set. Question 2) How do you make a HII using DS 7.1(any documentation is much appreciated)? We are a mostly 95% dell shop of various models and it would be great to be able to create and easily maintain one image for those who like to use it and a allow others to create a FAT Image if they want to do so.

In 7.1, DeployAnywhere attempts to get you to be able to image any computer by providing the basic NIC/HDD drivers critical to booting into WinPE and then imaging.  The current iteration of DA doesn't cover video/audio/USB/modems/etc.  If you want to include those, you're still looking at sysprep referencing dfussell's driver repository folders, wherever those may be.  Windows then references those locations as it starts up to install devices.

So we can modify the SYSPREP file in DS 7.1.  We could nt do that in DS 6.9 correct? you gd to get something like HIIS for that correct?

for windows xp where do I load the system.inf file? is it in  the OS Files part of DS. Also is there documentation on loading and specifying a sysprep.inf file? also where can I find the same related info on windows 7?

You can specify a custom sysprep.inf file on the Deploy Image task.  Information on the Sysprep.inf file can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479/
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/documents/sysprep.htm

I imagine the links above should guide you in the right direction...