INSTALL WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL FROM A MASTER IMAGEIN THIS EXERCISE, Y...

The USMT offers all the advantages of the Files And Settings Transfer Wizard, but is

geared toward large-scale deployments of multiple users in an Active Directory setting.

Windows Installer has a client-side installer service, Msiexec.exe, which allows the

operating system to control the installation. Windows Installer uses the informa-

tion stored in the package file, an .msi file, to install the application.

Case Scenario Exercise

In this exercise, you will read a scenario about deploying Windows XP Professional, and

then answer the questions that follow. If you have difficulty completing this work, review

the material in this chapter before beginning the next chapter. You can find answers to

these questions in the “Questions and Answers” section at the end of this chapter.

Scenario

You are working as an administrator for the School of Fine Art, which has a large campus

in San Francisco. The school’s network consists of 75 client computers running Win-

dows XP Professional and six servers running Windows Server 2003. All computers are

members of the same Active Directory domain. Two of the servers are configured as

domain controllers. The rest are configured as member servers that serve various roles on

the network. The company is adding 25 computers to its network, and you have been

given the responsibility of installing Windows XP Professional on these computers. All 25

of these computers are the same model computer from the same manufacturer and have

similar hardware. Your company has a volume licensing arrangement and has purchased

an additional 25 licenses of Windows XP Professional for the computers.

Questions