Imaging Windows Embedded standard and Windows 7 Embedded through Altiris 7.1

Why this Document?

            Altiris 7.x are not supporting imaging for“Windows Embedded standard and Windows 7 Embedded”

(http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO9965)

What is the technical challenge for imaging through Altiris 7.x ?

            Altiris 7.x doesn’t recognize the OS type and hence while deploying we will not be able to get dropdown for selecting license.

What is the solution?

            Please read through ….

I am working in environment having 8000 + embedded OS and imaging was done previously with DS 6.9 or pen drive or … ways but we have introduced Altiris 7.1 centralized server and having many site/package servers surprisingly Altiris 7.1 image deployment is not supported for embedded OS. Now my environment is getting updated from Windows Xp Embedded to Windows embedded standard or Windows 7 Embedded to overcome the challenge I have done some R & D and found the way out. Below are the steps

For image capturing.

Image capture runs fine as of other OS. Above mentioned OS is having sysprep available in system build itself so follow the same steps

1. Prepare for Image capture
2. Create Image (rdeploy)
3. Reboot To [Production]

Once image is created please note the GUID no of it. And stored location

• Settings – Deployment and migration – Disk images

Select the image which you have captured in above steps and note down the Package location:

For deploying the image.

Here comes the tricky part…

1. First task will be to reboot to PXE or Automation
2. Task Run batch script1. (map drive and run rdeploy to deploy the image)

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net use y: "\\Package server\Deployment\Task Handler"

y:\rdeploy\rdeploy.exe -rescan -md -f "y:\image\GUIDE\Image name .img"

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Note:-

You have noted down the Package location:in above step. You can get  ’Package server’ and  ’ GUIDE\Imagename’ from it I have mentioned the example to help.

Package location:

In above screen shot ’Package server’ will be ‘Test-img.domain.com’

 And ’ GUIDE\Imagename’ will be ‘a5af6141-5969-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx\test.img’

1. Task Run batch script2. (Recreate MBR to boot from c:drive)

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bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {bootmgr} device boot

bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {default} device partition=c:

1. Reboot to production

Sample Job screen shot: