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Instance Customization Process During Packaging

Ifyouspecifyinstancecustomizationdeploymentsettings,thefollowingeventsoccur

whenyoucompletetheNewPackagewizard:

1AsnapshotoftheACE‐enabledvirtualmachineistakenandsaved.

2TheACE‐enabledvirtualmachineispoweredon,andalltherequireddeployment

toolsandfiles,includingtheappropriateMicrosoftSyspreptools,areco

piedinto

thegu

est.

Thereisnovisibleindicationshowingthecopyingprocess.See“Downloadthe

MicrosoftSysprepDeploymentTools”onpage 440.

3TheMicrosoftdeploymenttoolsruninsidetheguestoperatingsystemtosealthe

guestandpreparefordeployment.

4Theguestoperatingsystemshutsdown.

5TheACE‐enabledvirtualmachineiscl

onedintothepackagedirectory.

Thevirtualmachinefilesarecopiedintothedirectory,encryptedifsettodoso,and

dividedtobeputonmediaifsettodoso.

6TheACE‐enabledvirtualmachinerevertstothesnapshot.

7Thesnapshotisdeleted.

8Theinstallerfilesarecopiedintothepackagedirectory.

Instance Customization on the End User’s Machine

OntheACEuser’smachine,afte rtheinstallationandinstanceactivation,thefollowing

eventsoccur:

1Allinformationrequiredforresolvingplaceholdervariablesisobtained.

2 PlaceholdervariablesareresolvedandreplacedwiththeactualvaluesfortheACE

instance.

See“PlaceholderValuestoUseinInstanceCustomization”onpage 442.

3TheMicrosoftMini‐Setupprocessrun

sunattended.

Ifth

eMini‐Setupprocessfails,theACEinstanceshutsdown.

4 (Optional)Additionalcommandstoexecuteotherscriptsthatyouspecifiedinthe

instancecustomizationdeploymentsettingsareexecuted.

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