http://blogs.technet.com/b/jamesone/archive/2009/11/28/how-easy-is-it-to-deploy-a-virtualized-server.aspxA couple of posts back I showed the video of deploying an operating system with Windows deployment services. But if you have an image in a Virtual hard disk , it is quicker to copy VHD file than it is to make an image of its contents and then expand theen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/jamesone/archive/2009/11/28/how-easy-is-it-to-deploy-a-virtualized-server.aspx#3297289Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:58 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3297289James ONeill<p>Chris, Andrew and I are working on it... once the VHD is prepared the process above takes over but we need to show that preparation step. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3297289" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/jamesone/archive/2009/11/28/how-easy-is-it-to-deploy-a-virtualized-server.aspx#3297253Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:58 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3297253seaJhawk<P>Are you going to post an example showing how the "new version of SQL server can be pre-installed with the Operating System"?\</P> <P>Thanks,</P> <P>Chris</P><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3297253" width="1" height="1">