Zero Touch Installation Deployment Feature Team Guide

This guide is intended to be used as a part of Microsoft® Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) and is designed to guide a specialist team through Solution Accelerator for BDD deployment tasks and checkpoints.

This guide contains detailed information about how to deploy Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and Office 2003 Editions using Solution Accelerator for BDD. The document shows how the automated deployment process should be run to successfully replace previous Windows operating systems with Windows XP.

Using This Guide

Quick-Start Guide and Checklist

Introduction

ZTI Deployment Process Overview

Envisioning

Planning

Developing

Stabilizing

Deploying

Transitioning to Operations

Additional Resources

Appendix A: Sample Customsettings.ini Files

Appendix B: Customsettings.ini Reference

Appendix C: AdminDB Database Schema

Appendix D: AdminDB .csv File Format Reference

Appendix E: ZTI Scenario Process Flowcharts

Appendix F: Sample User Exit Function

Appendix G: Training Resources

Appendix H: Resolving Common ZTI Deployment Problems

Appendix I: Deploying Windows XP Using Windows Product Activation

Appendix J: Sample Stored Procedure Calls

Appendix K: Automating Application Deployment Scenarios

Appendix L: Operating BDD Enterprise Without WINS

Appendix M: Locating Regional SQL Servers

Appendix N: Reserving Space for Future Migrations

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