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Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast – Build a Custom Bootdisk

Chris Henley just released a new screencast on his “Blue” blog.  This time our master storyteller has created a screencast on Windows PE.  In the screencast Chris shows you how to get up and running in 17 minutes on a topic that’s a bit tricky the first time you do it.  Chris has more information in the subject in his blog post at http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2008/08/27/custom-win-pe-images.aspx.  There’s a direct link there to the video in case you want to download it and watch it offline.  If you are lazy like me, you can run the Silverlight version just below.

We need to get him to tell us why he named his blog, Blue.  And we need to get on film me whipping his fanny in pool.

Published Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:59 PM by Keith Combs

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Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:58 PM by Jordan

# re: Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast – Build a Custom Bootdisk

I asked him why he used win PE 2.0 instead of 2.1 (which supports SP1 and Server 2008) but he kindly deleted my reply, i think.

The process is the same, im just playing devils advocate. :D

Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:10 PM by Keith Combs

# re: Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast – Build a Custom Bootdisk

I'm pretty sure he recorded the screencast before 2.1 was released.  I think he is going to do a follow-up and I requested that he also show how to build an installer on a USB stick.

I have a Vista Enterprise SP1 installer on mine.  I don't use it much, but it was fun to make.

Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:20 PM by Jordan

# re: Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast – Build a Custom Bootdisk

Because we lack directory services here i am relegated to scripting custom WinPE images to pull images off a server to deploy boxes. Its rough but it works.

We just got some 2008 Servers in so im hoping to try and set up Transport Server here soon and atleast get multicast for the images. Although even unicast I can pull down 10-15 5GB images in less than 10 minutes so MS did their homework with PE 2.0+

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