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| A TEXT or XML FILE CONTAINING RESPONSES TO THE USER PROMPTS THAT TYPICALLY APPEAR DURING A WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION. |
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| A SINGLE FILE WITH A .wim EXTENSION THAT CONTAINS ALL OF THE FILES NEEDED TO BOOT THE COMPUTER AND INITIATE AN OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION. |
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In Windows Deployment Services, a collectionof images that use a single set of files and the same security settings. Using an image group, you can apply updates and service packs to all of the files in the group in one process.
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| A command line program, included Windows Automated Installation Kit, which can capture, transfer, modify, and deploy file-based images from the Windows PE environment. |
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| A SINGLE FILE WITH A .wim EXTENSION THAT CONTAINS ALL OF THE FILES NEEDED TO INSTALL AN OPERATING SYSTEM ON A COMPUTER |
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| In Windows Automated Installation Kit, a fully installed and configured computer that serves as the model fromwhich you will create answer files and images. |
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| Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator (MAP) |
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| A free tool that can perform hardware inventories on computers with no agent software required on the client side. MAP can evaluate the hardware information and create reports that perform a variety of preinstallation tasks. |
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| Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 |
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| A Free set of scripts, tools, and documentation that can help administrators to plan and perform large-scale deployments of operating systems and applications to new and existing computer on a enterprise network. |
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| Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) |
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| A network adapter feature that enables a computer to connect to a server on the network and download the boot files it needs to run, rather than booting from a local drive. |
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| A Windows Server 2008 installation option that creates a stripped-down version of the operating system that relies primarily on the command prompt for user input. There is no start menu, no desktop Explorer shell, no Microsoft Management Console, and virtually no graphical applications. All you see when start the computer is a single window with a command prompt. |
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| A Windows technology that enable an image file to mantain a single copy of a particular operating system file and yet use it in multiple operating system images. This eliminates the need to store multiple copies of the same file. |
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| In Windows Automated Installation Kit, the computer on which you install Windows Automated Installation Kit, create answer files, and manage the image deployment process. |
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| A text or XML file containing responses to the user prompts that typically appear during a Windows operating System installation |
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| Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) |
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| A free set of tools and documents that enable network administrators to plan, create, and deploy operating system image files to new computers on the network. |
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| Windows Deployment Services (WDS) |
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| A role included with Windows Server 2008, which enables you to perform unattended installation of Windows Server 2008 and other operating system on remote computers, using network-based boot and installation media. |
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| Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) 2.1 |
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A subnet of Windows Server 2008 that provides basic access to the computer's network and disk drives, making it possible to perform an in-place or a network installation.
This eliminates DOS from the installation process by supplying its own preinstallation environment. |
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| Windows RE (Recovery Environment) |
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| A command line operating system, similar to Windows PE, in which you can run diagnostic and recovery tools. |
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| Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM) |
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| A graphical utility that creates and modifies answer files you can use to perform unattended operating system installations on remote computers. |
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