Windows installation Lesson 001) Installation Types

What are the categories that installation types can be broken down into?

Clean installations, in-place upgrade, attended installation, and unattended installation.

What can the categories of installation types be further grouped into?

Clean installation and in-place upgrade, and attended installation and unattended installation.

Clean Installation

The OS will be installed to a new computer by completely replacing the OS what already exists on that computer through reformatting and re-partitioning.

What happens during a clean installation?

All data, user settings, and programs are deleted.

In-Place Upgrade

Ability to upgrade the OS by changing the existing version of the OS into a newer version.

What is considered best practice when doing an OS upgrade?

Perform a backup.

What should be done if an in-place upgrade fails?

Do a clean install and restore data from a backup.

Attended Installation

Any installation where the system administrator needs to sit in front of the computer during the installation process.

Unattended Installation

Used by the sys admin when multiple machines need the installation.

When is unattended installation utilized?

When needing to work with multiple machines.

When is attended installation utilized?

When needing to work with one machine.

What will be used during an unattended installation?

A file or script with the required configuration details.

What file/script is used for unattended installations on Windows?

unattended.xml

What are the two main methods of unattended installation?

Image deployments and remote network installations.

Image Deployment

Occurs when taking an image file of a storage device that has a completed installation and then copies that over to the new system.

What is contained inside of an image deployment?

Base OS, configuration settings, service packs, updates, applications, and software.

What must be present when doing an unattended installation?

The unattended.xml file.

Remote Network Installation

Allows to boot up the computer, and will get the OS from a pre-boot environment over the network, then deploying it.