I'd use Windows Backup for the "quick-and-dirty" image because it is so darn easy, quick and effective. The right thing to do is to invest the time to learn about imagex, WDS, PXE booting and/or MDT.

So here's the deal, I am currently contracted with a local credit union who is working towards getting off of XP and onto 7 (like everyone else right now it seems). They used to use Ghost, then at ...

First it was Windows XP. Then we got Xcopy. Next, they changed Word files from .DOC to .DOCX. Now even our operating system imaging tool for Vista is ImageX. I'm seeing a pattern here. We'd better ...

The System Preparation Tool (Sysprep), is meant for System Administrators and OEMs, to automate the deployment of the Windows 11/10/8/7 operating system. Once you have performed the initial setup ...

Update April 05, 13:44 EDT: Microsoft has fixed this known issue in the optional March preview cumulative update. Microsoft says admins are seeing 0x80073cf2 errors when using the System Preparation ...

Answer and explanation is below. Answer is D: ImageX is a command-line tool that can be used to capture a Windows 7 installation from a reference computer, and that image can be deployed. ImageX ...

Q: A company's IT team would like to deploy a standardized Windows Server image to several machines on the network. Using Windows Deployment Services (WDS), which steps are required to capture the ...