Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 14 ( Creating the sequencer machine)
June 3rd, 2011
Creating the sequencer machine
Its trial and error process, not all the application have a sequencing recipe a lot have it but not all so it’s always good to do your homework before you start
Some of the best practices in creating the SEQ machine
- · Try to make it virtual machine avoid using a physical one (or you will have to format 5 or 6 time a day )
- · Create two partitions a least the Second one the same drive latter you will be using in the client machines (like q: )
- · Create dummy ODBC object
- · Create dummy printer
- · Stop windows update services
· Some of my own best practices
- · Disable the network card
- · Disable or turn off the antivirus
- · Install and configure the correct language settings
- · Improve performance by turn off all the visual affects
For more http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932137/
Now we will do three kinds of packages that we will make
- · Office 2010
- · Office 2007
- · Basic apps
Installing the SQ
Remove all selected and set it to be the new default I found this to be useful in many cases
Now shutdown the VM and take a snapshot
