MITPUG Dec

Slide1 : Michana Information Technology Professional Users Group Founding members Dustin Hannifin, Chris Dietz and Adam Brody Meetings are 2nd Wednesdays of the month Sponsors for MITPUG : Microsoft Crowe Chizek and Company Signal Learning Insight.com Our goal is to be a member of Culminis IT Professional Users group Involve others in the IT community to participate in MITPUG Network and share information about the IT Profession


Michana Information Technology Professional Users Group : Michana Information Technology Professional Users Group Who is MITPUG targeted at : Network Administrators Help Desk support personnel Database administrators Students, MCSE’s, MCDBA, MCSA, or other Microsoft centered Credential Both employed or looking for employment in the field. Who is MITPUG not targeted at: .NET application developers, or programmers (Madnug) PC enthusiast and other Home computing users. (EPCUG) Those who need technical support.


Slide3 : Michana Information Technology Professional Users Group Other MITPUG information Next meeting is NOV 9th at Crowe Chizek down town SB. Pizza is being provided by Signal Learning Prizes this month are provided by Microsoft Speaker is Dusting Hannifin ( Microsoft Windows Vista Beta/CR ) Please fill out the evaluations for prize drawings WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR FUTURE EVENTS. Contact information : Chris Dietz - Cdietz@crowechizek.com Adam Brody – Abrody@crowechizek.com Dustin Hannifin – DHannifin@crowechizek.com MITPUG email - MITPUG@yahoo.com


Slide4 : Michana Information Technology Professional Users Group Who is Culminis ? An international non-stock corporation, chartered with supporting the successful growth, development, technical education, community service, and influence of IT Professional user groups and associations interested in Microsoft IT products and solutions. The fundamental goal of Culminis is to build a partnership between IT Professionals and IT solution providers. Create meaningful and valuable long-term relationships between IT Professionals and our highly engaged sponsors on a global basis Create rich interactive opportunities for members to learn, use, and apply IT solutions of our sponsors


Slide5 : Drive professional recognition and demand for certified IT Professionals Grow our representation of IT Professionals internationally Improve the satisfaction of our members with our organization and its sponsors Gain recognition as a unique and valuable channel for our sponsors to gain insights from IT Professionals in order to improve their products Assist our members in growing their organizations and helping their communities We are seeking select User Groups and Associations to join the Culminis Alliance Program (CAP) in providing a single, powerful and influential voice for IT Professionals. Culminis cont…


Soul Pad MS style : Soul Pad MS style Take your work PC home with you but with out your hardware. Provides you with an environment that is highly portable while still keeping all benefits of a regular work pc environment. Soul Pad refers to IBM’s concept of using Linux and VMWare and a bootable HD device.


Soul Pad MS style cont… : Soul Pad MS style cont… Using Linux provides HW compatibility for almost any pc that is USB bootable Allows for easy end user interaction Video of IBM’s Soul Pad.


Soul Pad MS style cont… : Soul Pad MS style cont… Can we do this with MS… Yes! Using PEbuilder (window pre-installation environment). Using MS Virtual PC Using MS Windows XP as the guest OS in VPC.


First we need to build a suitable OS that is bootable via USB or cd that VPC can run as program. : First we need to build a suitable OS that is bootable via USB or cd that VPC can run as program. Using BartPE we can accomplish a bootable Windows environment We can use plug-ins to install Virtual PC and then use the guest OS.


Some considerations …… : Some considerations …… Hardware 512 USB 2.0 flash drive. 4 gig laptop hard drive with USB 2.0 enclosure. IBM Thinkpad T30, T40, T41, T42, T43 Software PeBuilder 3.1.3 PeToUSB 3.0.0.7 Various plug-ins for hardware support. Windows XP disk manager.msc PE2USB.exe and PE2USB.cmd Virtual PC plug-ins


BartPE and Microsoft WinPE? : BartPE and Microsoft WinPE? Target - Microsoft sees Windows PE as an installation platform. Bart sees Windows PE as the next generation rescue platform. Start-menu - Bart's builder gives you a simple, dynamic and powerful start-menu (Nu2Menu, see screenshots). Microsoft's builder does not give you a start-menu, it uses a command prompt. Build from - Bart's builder can also build from Windows XP Home Edition or from a preinstalled Windows XP version (without CD). Plugins - With PE Builder you can easily add applications, drivers or tools using plugins. This makes PE Builder extremely powerful. The end user can even combine plugins from different software vendors into one CD image. Network support - PE Builder includes its own network support tools (bartpe/penetcfg) to start TCP/IP and Microsoft Client. The TCP/IP settings like: dynamic/static ip-address, subnet-mask, default gateway, dns-servers computer-name, workgroup can be changed on-the-fly. You can create pre-defined profiles, that you can select. Microsoft winPE only supports DHCP or fixed settings using winbom.ini. Also there is a plugin (NwDskPe) created by Erwin Veermans that loads the Netware Client on BartPE (IP/IPX). Fileshare - BartPE can start File Sharing support so you can connect to the system through a share. VNC - Because of the File Sharing support you can also run UltraVNC. Dos support - Bart's builder has a plugin called "dospe". License - Microsoft WinPE is only for Enterprise/OEM customers (see previous), BartPE is for everybody! 64-Bit - Bart's builder does not support Windows 64-bit editions.


Requirements to build: : Requirements to build: The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom. Supported Windows versions are: Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher) Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher) Windows Server 2003, Web Edition Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems. CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.


Key plug-ins : Key plug-ins XPE by Sherpya XPE AutoRamDiskResizer XPE Ram Disk (qsoft) XPE NU2MENU Shortcuts converter (Will not work with ram drive version) Drivers for Network Cards and sound cards if desired. HWpnp by Paraglider MMC plug-in PENETCFG AutoStart by “The Truth” PENETCFG Network configurator also by “The Truth” MS Virtual PC I created this one myself using “plug-in builder”


Demo : Demo Building / Using PEbuilder Booting to CD-ROM , USB, or hard disk drive. Your pc must be enable to Boot to alternate source through the BIOS USB hard disk emulation is better but not required. USB 1.1 and 2.0 are supported but 2.0 is preferred.


Building / Using Pebuilder cont… : Building / Using Pebuilder cont… USB 1.1 VS 2.0 Found that using USB 2.0 is better overall performance and usability. 1.1 will work ok, but doesn’t really have the potential for the workplace. Some 1.1 USB controllers reset themselves while booting causing blue screen.


Considerations for USB 1.1 and 2.0 : Considerations for USB 1.1 and 2.0 Pe2USB.exe, a windows program that will install/copy BartPE to USB. This is used for USB 2.0 controllers that can emulate HD Works best with the T43 Thinkpad and is relatively speedy. Pe2USB.cmd is a script that loads the BartPE files and then loads a RAM drive configuration to boot from. Uses the Ram disk as the loading drive to avoid the Blue screen when the USB device resets itself. Uses files from Windows 2003 service pack 1 files to create the RAMdisk Lightning fast once the OS loaded no matter 1.1 or 2.0. Must have at least 512 or higher memory for the RAM disk and BartPE.


Demo: : Demo: Using Pe2USB.exe and Pe2USB.cmd


Using VPC : Using VPC If all has successfully built and copied to USB or CD then use VPC to launch the guest OS. The guest OS will need a Virtual Disk which can be quite large. I used a USB Hard Drive with 2 partitions. 1 partition is 1 gig with the BartPE installation, and the 2nd is NTFS and about 10 gigs of free space. Save your VPC session and the VD will keep getting bigger.


Websites : Websites http://oss.netfarm.it/winpe/ http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=10806&st=200 http://xpe.collewijn.info/page/driver_plugin.php http://xpe.collewijn.info/page/pebuilder_xpe.php http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder