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Microsoft SoftGrid Virtual Lab

Friday, 19 January 2007 by Michel Roth

Microsoft has made available a "Microsoft SoftGrid Demonstration Virtual Lab". Definitely worth those 90 minutes of your time, especially if you're new to Softgrid. In this lab, you will be walked through a demonstration of:

• Zerotouch
• Softgrid For Microsoft Systems Center (SMS 2003)
• Vista Migration
• Softgrid Sequencing

Some of the other labs that have been made available that might interest in:

Deploying Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System Images Using SMS 2003 Virtual Lab
You will learn how to:
• Install the SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack Update.
• Install USMT 3.0 to capture and restore user state information.
• Create an Image Capture Wizard CD.
• Image a Windows Vista client computer.
• Import the Windows Vista image into an SMS 2003 image package.
• Deploy the Windows Vista image to upgrade a Windows 2000 client computer.

Getting Started Building Windows XP Embedded Operating System Images (Feature Pack 2007)
After completing this lab, you will be better able to:Work with the XP Embedded tools to build a bootable image of Windows XP Embedded, work with the Windows XP Embedded component database and build and deploy an operating system image.

Windows Vista Image Engineering
In this lab, learn to use Windows Image Manager (WIM) to automate the installation of a reference computer. Also, learn to create an image of a reference computer using Windows PE, Sysprep and ImageX. Finally, learn techniques for modifying WIM images without having to recapture an image of a reference computer.

Using System Image Manager to Automate Windows Vista Installations
In this lab you will learn to use Windows Image Manager to create a distribution share and create an Unattend.xml file to perform an automated Windows Vista Installation.

There's a lot more interesting labs available. For full listing of all (386!) Virtual Labs available, go here.