Inside Panther Troubleshooting the Windows Setup Engine

Johan ArwidmarkChief Technical ArchitectKnowledge Factory

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Agenda

The Windows 7 Setup EngineImage Based Setup and AutomationConfiguration PassesComponent Based Servicing

Device Drivers in Windows 7Image ServicingDevice Driver Ranking

Troubleshooting Logfiles

Demo Environment

Hyper-V R2, 16 GB RAM, 256 SSD

DC01DC and DNS

MDT01MDT 2010WDS, WSUS and DHCPSQL 2008 Express SP1

DC02DC and DNS

CM01MDT 2010SQL 2008 SP1 WDS, WSUS and DHCPConfigMgr 2007 SP2

Windows 7 Setup

Setup is exclusively image-based32- or 64-bit executableAutomated via unattend.xmlNew boot from VHD optionOne image can support all hardware

WinPE 3.0 drives the DeploymentUsing Setup or Imaging Utility

Windows 7 Setup, continued.

Larger imagesBranch Office scenarios

Windows Recovery Offline ServicingBitlocker

XP x86 W7 x86 W7 x640

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

Image Size (GB)

demo

Following a Windows 7 setup…

Johan ArwidmarkChief Technical ArchitectKnowledge Factory

Automating the Setup

Unattend.xml is the key…WSIM (from WAIK 2.0) it’s creator…

WIM Files and Catalog FilesDistribution ShareAdding PackagesAdding Drivers

Windows 7 Configuration PassesWindows PE Windows Setup Sysprep

WindowsPE Windows PE Generalize

offlineServicing

Specialize

OobeSystem

AuditSystem

AuditUser

demo

Automating the Setup

Johan ArwidmarkChief Technical Architect Knowledge Factory

Offline Servicing

Before or during DeploymentUsing Deployment Imaging and Servicing (DISM)Adding PackagesAdding Drivers

Component based servicing

Component Based Servicing (CBS) Component Servicing

Infrastructure (CSI)

Driver Management and Install (DMI)

Component Management Infrastructure (CMI)

Systems Management Infrastructure (SMI)

Kernel Transaction Manager (KTM)

Windows 7 Setup Logfiles

Locations depend on the setup phaseLocations (See KB 927521 for details)

C:\WINDOWS\C:\WINDOWS\PANTHER C:\WINDOWS\INFC:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\PantherX:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Panther

Windows 7 Setup Logfiles, cont.

Key LogfilesSetupact.logsetuperr.log setupapi.dev.logsetupapi.app.log

demo

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Setup

Johan ArwidmarkChief Technical Architect Knowledge Factory

Windows 7 Device Drivers

DirectXThe Windows 7 Driver Store

PNP ServiceDriver rankingDevice Driver signing

demo

Windows 7 Device Drivers

Johan ArwidmarkChief Technical ArchitectKnowledge Factory

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