Many people are interested in the utilities and features offered in Windows Vista deployment tools. They are also very interested in the new BDD framework. What many people don’t realize is that you can use many of the Vista deployment tools to manage and configure Windows XP images.

The following guide will get you on your way to automated greatness of BDD.

The first thing you need to do is copy the OS files into the BDD infrastructure.

To do this open the BDD workbench MMC.

Next click on “Operating Systems” and click “New” in the Actions Pane.

In the wizard choose “Full set of source Files” and Click next.

Insert the Windows XP SP2 CD or mount an ISO image on your BDD server. Browse to the appropriate drive and select it. Click Next

Type in the name you wish to use for the directory and click copy.

The operation to copy all the files will take a few minutes you’ll see a progress bar similar to the following:

This is actually just copying the source files into a directory in your distribution share. You can see the folder if you open

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