Deployment Solution

Hello,

We're upgrading to Windows 7 and are split between Professional and Enterprise. We're trying to create a single WIM file that contains both Professional and Enterprise in their x86 and x64 versions. The goal here is to save disk space by having 1 file instead of 4. We've got the WIM file created and everything seems to be in order, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the Altiris Image job to address the other WIM file Index numbers.  It will default to something like: imagex /apply image_file 1 image_pat . I've tried adding things to the "additional parameters" but nothing appears to work and it always using the first image in the file. Does anyone know how to do this or suggest an alternative?

Thanks!
Josh

Ideally the next update will allow us to choose which index, but for now, you could run imagex with a script?

Agreed... Deploy the image via a script job instead.  It gives you more control anyway.

Hello,

Thank you for the comments. I'd thought about using a run script job but I haven't want to do that since i've been utalizing the options for sysprep and DeployAnywhere. I guess I could add the sysprep commands to the run script, but I'm not sure how to replace the DeployAnyWhere functionality?

Regards,
Josh

What options for sysprep are you using during a distribute disk image job?  And for DeployAnywhere, do you actually need to use it?  You could just supply the NIC and mass storage drivers along with the other drivers, and replace the hal yourself.

DS 6.9 Sp1 or greater has a sample job for ImageX capture and deploy.
Deployanywhere is your friend I Would use it.

Unfortunately I don't recall where it was, but you can run DeployAnywhere via script.

You don't really have to run it at all though, but I suppose it makes mass storage driver management easier.