[Official Tutorials] [ES4 Package Tutorial] 2. Use Easy Sysprep v4 to encapsulate Windows XP

(i) Back up the current operating system

The first step in encapsulation is actually to back up the currently installed operating system. Avoid problems in the next steps, so that we have to reinstall the operating system, wasting time and energy.

System backup presumably everyone will. for WinXP, it is recommended to use ghost Backup. It is recommended to use easy image x in the USB flash drive installation assistant to perform a ghost backup operation, easily image X has the features of graphical operation and ease of setting compression rate.

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It is important to note that we are now backing up the system for a rainy day, rather than making a system image after encapsulation, so the compression rate does not have to be adjusted too high to avoid wasting more backup and recovery time. Compression is recommended for "fast compression", which is slightly larger, but backup and recovery is fast. After Setup is complete, the ghost backup process starts automatically.

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After a wait, the system backup is complete.

(ii) Pre-package preparation

The purpose of encapsulation is to quickly deploy the operating system, reducing unnecessary duplication of effort. Therefore, we need to integrate the system patches to the source system, install common software, thereby reducing the duplication of work after each deployment.

1, integrated system patches. There are many ways to integrate patches, such as using Windows Update, using third-party security software, using third-party patch packages, and so on. It is recommended that you use the IT Sky System Patch installation Assistant to install all important patches at once.
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2, install common software. Common software commonly used is also a few, please according to your own system deployment scope and decide.
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Special Reminders
(1) Not all software can well adapt to the system packaging deployment, especially some domestic software;
(2) need to activate the software, after deployment is generally required to reactivate;
(3) Do not recommend the integration of security software, some security software will block the normal system deployment process, and even lead to blue screen downtime;
(4) If some software is not suitable for integration in the system, you can use the first-in-desktop silent installation method to resolve.

3, backup system. And back up the system? Yes, backup. Patch installation of about 20 minutes, software also need to install and adjust, so the overall time is generally not less than 30 minutes. To prevent unknown errors during encapsulation, it is recommended to back up the system again for future adjustments. After this backup, we can confidently start the encapsulation operation.
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(iii) The first phase package

Easy Sysprep v4 (ES4) differs from previous ES3, ES2, and traditional encapsulation aids in that it divides encapsulation into two phases.

The first stage: to complete the packaging operation as the primary purpose;
The second stage: To complete the adjustment of the system for the primary purpose.

the package and adjustment are separated to reduce the influence of the adjustment operation on the package operation and guarantee the package success rate.

1. Start ES4
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2. Package option Setting interface
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(1) Serial number, legal system serial number, OEM and vol system Please enter here, the retail version needs to be entered at the time of deployment
* Remind A:vol (free activation version) is not a free serial number, if you do not need to enter the installation is because the automatic answer file to help you enter the
* Reminder B: Serial number cannot be used if the serial number is not suitable for the current system, or if the system streamlines the function of serial number authentication
(2) Registered users and registered organizations, can not be empty, please fill in your relevant information, leave blank to remain the default
(3) Time zone, please select according to your time zone
(4) Security identifier, if generated, slows down the deployment of the system and recommends that the domain-joined computer be selected
(5) Network, workgroup or domain, please select according to your situation, if "domain" can also set the Access domain account and password
(6) Server licensing mode for Windows Server 2003, not for XP
(7) Clean the current computer Plug and Play drive, it is strongly recommended to select, will automatically uninstall the current driver
(8) Release the underlying hardware driver for the current system, and it is strongly recommended that all underlying hardware drivers be released into the system to increase compatibility with the underlying device at deployment time
(9) Move the current desktop shortcut to the public desktop to apply the current user desktop shortcut to all users, but will affect the location of the current shortcut

3, Pre-package preview
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4. Start Package
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The first phase of the ES4 package involves only the required operations for encapsulation, so fewer operations and more adjustment operations are left for the second phase.

(iv) Phase II package

the second phase of Easy Sysprep v4 (ES4) is packaged in a PE environment rather than a regular system desktop environment. The second phase focuses on: adjusting the system configuration.

PE under the advantages of the system adjustment, the advantages are three:
(1) In fact, the system packaging necessary operation has been completed, to adjust the package after the system, do not worry about the adjustment to the success of the package impact;
(2) There is no need to think too much about the effect of system authority on system adjustment;
(3) Once some adjustments have been made, there is no need to re-encapsulate the system and adjust again.

1. Back up the first stage packaged system for a rainy day
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2. Start ES4
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3, OEM information settings
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Features:
(1) Registered users, registered organizations, generally automatically read the first stage of the value set, can be modified again, but not empty
(2) Manufacturer, computer model, please fill in according to the actual situation
(3) OEM picture, 180x114 bmp format Picture
(4) Start menu link, please fill in according to the actual situation
(5) Support information, please fill in according to the actual situation
Description:
(1) If the manufacturer, the computer model and the support information belong to Oeminfo.ini, if the manufacturer, the computer model does not fill, then the Oeminfo.ini is incomplete, the support information will not be effective, special notice!
(2) If you do not want to use OEM pictures, click the Clear button to keep the picture path empty
(3) If you do not want to use the Start menu link, set the link name to empty

4. Registry Optimization Settings
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Features:
(1) default provides a set of registry optimization scheme, you can click the Browse button to import custom scenarios
(2) Final Registry optimization scheme is subject to the content in the text box
(3) Can manually delete unwanted items, can also manually add the required items

5. Service Optimization
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Features:
(1) The target system will be enumerated all service description name and service name, can set the status of the service (automatic, manual, disabled)
(2) Unlike ES3, the service description is not displayed, this issue is not well resolved, follow-up will be gradually revised

6. System settings
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Features:
(1) Switch music, can help to replace the switch machine sound, WAV format, not too long, please bring your own
(2) system page, can assist to Exchange System Properties panel and Login page program, please bring your own
(3) Virtual memory, can set the system default and custom two modes, in the custom mode can also set the page file location, paging file size
(4) Computer name, including completely random, fully fixed, [date]-[time], [prefix]-[date] [TIME] four modes
(5) SFC, can be set to turn off or on SFC, when you open the SFC state can choose whether to automatically recover the Dllcache file
(6) Other hack, get more connections or support more third-party themes
Description:
(1) Computer name [date]-[time] mode, named after shape: 20130122-151922
(2) Computer name [prefix]-[date] [time] mode, named after the shape such as: SKY-20130122ITK,prefix maximum 5 letters
(3) It is recommended to close SFC, no longer use,SFC is a system protection function of the chicken, can easily be bypassed by malicious program, disable also can improve the system response speed

7. Deployment Settings
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Features:
(1) Serial number, usually read the serial number set in the first stage, if you want to change the
(2) Time zone, usually read the time zone set in the first stage, if you want to change the changes
(3) Display settings, can set the resolution of the deployment and into the desktop
(4) Using Hardware abstraction Layer (HAL) to automatically determine the target computer HAL to avoid power management failure
(5) Take over the deployment process, after the takeover can realize more deployment functions, such as pre-and post-deployment interface, etc.
(6) Using deployment plug-ins, such as deployment Sidebar, deployment progress bar
(7) Deployment background, can set single background mode or multi-background switch mode
(8) Boot time setting, can be set after the package and after the deployment of boot time
(9) Clean up the Plug and Play driver in the target system, clean the PNP drive in the system (Emergency and test function, use caution)
(10) Clean up the disk controller driver in the target system, clean the IAR driver in the system (Emergency and test function, use caution)
(11) Clean up the patch backup and uninstall program in the target system, clean up the patch backup and patch uninstall program left by the installation patch, reduce the system image volume
(12) Cleanup of temporary files and system logs in the target system to further clean up residual files in the target system
Description:
(1) It is not recommended to manually specify the deployment resolution, keeping the system default to the best. In addition, setting the deployment resolution may affect settings that go into the desktop resolution
(2) It is not recommended to manually specify the desktop resolution, the deployment of the universal driver assistant after the installation of the driver, the best resolution when entering the desktop
(3) HAL Automatic decision is very important (enabled by default in ES3), can avoid the power management failure caused by the abnormal shutdown problem
(4) HAL automatically determine the required Longhorn NTLDR, better compatibility than XP NTLDR, can assume a large number of IAR-driven startup Burden
(5) Take over the deployment process recommended use (enabled by default in ES3) to expand additional deployment capabilities
(6) Some PS over the picture does not conform to the public standard of the system, if the picture can not be displayed by the background program, you can save it with Windows Self-drawing tool
(7) the option to clean up PNP and IAR drivers is not recommended, and these two features are used only for emergency situations where the target system is "dirty"

8. Network Settings
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Features:
(1) Network settings, you can choose to manually specify and DHCP two modes, please select and set as required
(2) network environment, you can set workgroup or domain information, generally read the first step set the value, if you want to change the set
(3) Server licensing mode for Windows Server 2003
(4) LAN sharing settings, providing three different authentication methods, please select and set as required
Description:
(1) In IP address settings, "*" can be used instead of random values between 2~254
(2) IP setting function ES4 uses a new method, set faster than ES3 several times
(3) Provide national main provinces and Cities Unicom, telecommunications DNS, and provide two sets of general DNS backup
(4) You can set whether the local connection is displayed on the taskbar, and display the rules.

9. Special calling Interface
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Function:
(1) Special invocation interfaces are generally reserved for specific applications or functions
(2) Universal Driver Assistant calling interface, reserved for it Sky Universal Driver assistant, can set deployment in/into desktop call
(3) Universal Driver Assistant calling interface comes with the first-in-the-Go Launcher Task Manager and the ability to remove decompression drivers
(4) Quick Configuration tool, can be set into desktop call it Sky Quick Configuration tool for quick System setup
(5) Integrated runtime, dedicated interface for it Sky One-click Run Library, can set deployment in/into desktop call
(6) Other functions See UI description

10. Universal Calling Interface
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Features:
(1) Call EXE, BAT, cmd Run, can set the running parameters, can be set to hide and do not wait
(2) Call the reg file for automatic silent import
(3) Delete the specified file
(4) Delete the specified directory
(5) After the task is set, select the call time, click "Add" button to add the task to the list
(6) Select the task, click the Delete button to delete the task, click the Edit button to adjust the task
(7) Select the task, click the Move Up or Move Down button, the task execution order can be moved
(8) The "Finishing" function will automatically sort the tasks by the call time, and the second phase of the package will be automatically organized before the task begins.
Description:
(1) When the calling program is in the system disk, the drive letter is automatically converted to%systemdrive%
(2) When the calling program is located on a non-system disk, the drive letter is automatically converted to%x%, and the deployment automatically searches for all drive characters to find the specified program
(3) can also use%cdrom% and%udisk% refer to the optical drive and USB drive, deployment will only search the designated device to find the designated program
(4) If the program is hidden, and the program is stuck, then there will be no prompt, use this feature with caution
(5) If do not wait mode is enabled, will not wait for the execution of the current program will start the execution of the next program, this is a very bad state, only for special application calls, do not use it arbitrarily, this function will not speed up the execution of the program or shorten the deployment process, on the contrary will bring a lot of problems

Auto-drive letter to%x% example:
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Auto-drive letter to%systemdrive% example:
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Sample Delete File task:
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Example of deleting a directory task:
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11. Disk Controller Driver
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Description:
(1) IAR driver List is consistent with the latest Skyiar stable version
(2) to provide a complete set of broad compatibility of the IAR drive scheme, it is recommended to use
(3) If there is a need, you can manually select only the IAR driver, if there is a conflict between the IAR driver, the program will automatically remind
(4) The IAR drive scheme is not all selected, but the most compatible driver combination is selected

12. Save Settings
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Information overview, if no issues are found, click the Finish button to start all adjustment work

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13, backup system for the system image, pay attention to choose the maximum compression rate
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You are done, you can test the deployment of the image!

(v) System deployment

Deploy the system image you just encapsulated to see the effect:

1. Minimized system installation (MiniSetup)
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2. Automatically install the required runtime library when registering components

(1) Automatic installation DIREXTX 9.0c
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(2) Automatic installation of vc++2005/2008/2010 and other runtime libraries
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3, automatic implementation of universal driver Assistant

(1) Testing hardware
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(2) Unzip and install the drive
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4, access to the system, patches, software, run the library, drive all the same!
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* About the runtime installation time

Some friends like to DX9 before encapsulation, VC + + and other running libraries installed, so as to facilitate the reduction of system deployment time. Some friends like to install DX9, VC + + and other runtime libraries in the deployment, which helps to reduce the image volume and is easy to update. Both methods are correct, and the process is installed in the runtime in the deployment, so choose which method to use according to your actual needs.

How to swap files with virtual machines without using Vmtools

Vmtool although convenient, but after all, is dedicated to virtual machine software, will be encapsulated system does not install Vmtools, easy to lead to some trivial problems. Below I will introduce a most commonly used host and virtual machine Exchange files, of course, than vmtools cumbersome, but never affect the system encapsulation.

1. Import files from the host to the virtual machine (virtual machine power-on or down-state is available)

(1) Using UltraISO to import files into an ISO image
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(2) in VMware Player, follow the steps to enter the Virtual machine Settings page
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(3) Locate the optical drive and load the ISO image you just generated
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(4) The System CD-ROM in the virtual machine will appear the ISO image we have just loaded
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(5) Open the virtual machine disc drive letter, copy the file into the virtual machine hard disk
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2. Export files from a virtual machine to a host (the virtual machine must be down)

(1) Open virtual machine disk function with Diskgenius
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(2) Browse the main file of the selected virtual machine disk file (same name as the virtual machine originally named)
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(3) The virtual machine hard disk is opened by Diskgenius, such as the method can be very convenient to "take" the file to the host
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[Official Tutorial] [ES4 Package tutorial]2. Using Easy Sysprep v4 encapsulating Windows XP