The following quick-start guide provides a detailed overview of the process for deploying Zero Touch Installation (ZTI). You can use this guide to help identify the steps of the ZTI deployment process that you need additional information to complete, and to skip the steps with which you are already familiar. Table 1 and Table 2 are checklists of the high-level steps in the ZTI deployment Planning and Development phases, correspondingly. Table 1. Checklist of the High-Level Steps in the ZTI Deployment Planning Phase |
| Determine When Lite Touch Is Appropriate | | You need to determine when Lite Touch deployment may be more appropriate than ZTI. If Lite Touch deployment is right for you, then read the Lite Touch Deployment Feature Team Guide. |
| Select the Appropriate Deployment Scenarios | | Your environment typically requires more than one deployment scenario. You need to determine which combination of the deployment scenarios is to be used in your environment (including Refresh Computer, New Computer, and Replace Computer scenarios). |
| Ensure the Required Infrastructure Exists | | Unless the appropriate infrastructure exists, you cannot deploy workstations by using ZTI. You need to ensure that the appropriate infrastructure exists to support ZTI before starting deployment. |
| Determine the Appropriate ZTI Processing Rules | | Before you can deploy workstations by using ZTI, you need to configure the ZTI processing rules. The ZTI processing rules help determine which images get deployed and the configuration settings for those operating system images. The focus of this step is the appropriate configuration of the Customsettings.ini file. |
Table 2. Checklist of the High-Level Steps in the ZTI Deployment Developing Phase |
| Prepare the RIS Server | | In ZTI, Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) is used to start Microsoft Windows® Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE). You need to ensure that you configure RIS accordingly and create the Windows PE images that are initiated by RIS. |
| Install the Solution Accelerator for BDD | | The Solution Accelerator for BDD includes the ZTI scripts, ZTI configuration files, computer imaging wizards, and other files that are needed to successfully deploy operating systems by using ZTI. As a part of this step, install User State Migration Tool (USMT) version 2.6 and the ZTI Administration Database (AdminDB) console. |
| Configure the Appropriate Resource Access | | The accounts used by the ZTI scripts, Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 clients, SMS Operating System Deployment (OSD) Feature Pack, and other components in ZTI require access to various resources. Before you can deploy operating systems by using ZTI, you need to ensure that these accounts have the appropriate permissions to the required resources. |
| Configure the ZTI Operating System Image | | As a part of the ZTI deployment process, OSD is responsible for the creation and delivery of the operating system images. OSD has phases that are used based on the deployment scenario (including Validation, State Capture, Preinstall, Postinstall, and State Restore Phases). You need to configure the ZTI actions for each of these OSD phases. |
| Create the ZTI Operating System Image CD | | You create the ZTI operating system images by using the guidance in the Computer Imaging Guide. However, you need to modify these images to operate with ZTI before you can use ZTI to deploy your operating system images. |
| Configure the ZTI Processing Rules | | During the Planning Phase of the ZTI deployment process, you determined the ZTI processing rules to be used in determining the appropriate operating system images and settings to deploy. Now you need to customize the Customsettings.ini files and AdminDB database with those settings and then update the ZTI operating system images you created earlier in the process. |
| Prepare the Windows PE CDs and Images | | As the last step before starting the deployment of workstations by using ZTI, you need to prepare the Windows PE CDs and images. In environments with RIS, you can use RIS to start Windows PE. In environments without RIS or when the target workstation is unable to access a RIS server, you can start Windows PE on the target workstation by using a Windows PE CD. You need to customize your Windows PE CDs and images so that they work with ZTI. |
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