Chris Henley is a fun and energetic representative of Microsoft. He works on the Developer Platform Evangelist team at Microsoft as an IT Professional Evangelist in the western region and is the co-author of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference from Sybex press. Chris is a regular speaker and presenter at user groups, Technet events, and major conferences around the US.
He has extensive experience in the world of computer networks. He is passionate about the way that technology helps people. He has an entertaining and insightful style of communicating technical information and of making difficult concepts easy to understand. He is an expert in server architecture and network design. He loves to push the envelope of what we think about computers, and what software can do. Chris spends his spare time playing XBOX360 with his wife and kids, fly fishing, camping, hiking, and searching for the best chocolate cake on planet earth.
When Windows Vista was released one of the big changes was the way in which Vista was deployed. We talked at length about the new WIM file format and the flexibility that the format would allow us to have. Among other things it allows us to mount the installation files in a file system and make changes to the contents of the installations components. My good friend Matt Hester has recorded what I think is one of the first real world examples of how to slipstream an update into Windows Vista using the .wim file. Matt mounts the .wim, adds IE8 Beta into Windows Vista and then dismounts the wim and saves the changes. It's a great video! The best thing is that Matt shows how a process that used to be fairly painful and time consuming can be done with much less time and effort. Leaving more time for XBOX.
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