HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit Win32 Edition Best Practices User Manual

Contents 3

Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 4

Win32 Toolkit overview ............................................................................................................................. 4

Toolkit changes ......................................................................................................................................... 4

Minimum requirements ............................................................................................................................... 4

Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment................................................................................ 5

Overview of the Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment ..................................................................... 5

Windows PE build process ......................................................................................................................... 5

Building a Windows PE base image .................................................................................................. 5

Customizing the Windows PE image using the Toolkit driver component................................................. 6

Booting Windows PE from a USB drive key .................................................................................................. 7

Configuring HP ProLiant systems with Windows PE ........................................................................... 8

Overview of configuring HP ProLiant systems with Windows PE....................................................................... 8

Unattended configuration using startnet.cmd ................................................................................................. 8

Creating required data files with Windows PE .............................................................................................. 9

Capturing and storing data files using physical media........................................................................ 10

Capturing data files over a network ................................................................................................. 10

Creating script files.................................................................................................................................. 10

CD-based Windows PE deployment........................................................................................................... 16

PXE-based Windows PE deployment .......................................................................................................... 17

Network-based Windows PE deployment ................................................................................................... 17

Technical support........................................................................................................................ 19

Reference documentation ......................................................................................................................... 19

Toolkit support ........................................................................................................................................ 19

HP contact information............................................................................................................................. 19

Acronyms and abbreviations........................................................................................................ 20

Index......................................................................................................................................... 22