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Now as we talk about Windows 7 in this particular video series there's two distinct audiences that is kind of the Home User, the person using Windows 7 that may be watching this to try to figure out all the new features and cool things about Windows 7. But then for the corporate people they have a challenge and that is they're not just going to install Windows 7, they are actually going to deploy it or push it out to maybe hundreds or even thousands of Desktops. Now there's some great white paper stuff out on Microsoft's site that you can go look at. You basically have two choices when you're trying to push this operating system out to a bunch of clients. You can deploy it manually using Boot and Installation Images. Now, when we installed Windows 7 a little earlier in the course and just kind of went through the process and when you install it at home on your PC or Laptop, you are doing a manual install and you're using a Boot and Installation Image. Now you're taking the Windows 7 Disk and you're putting it in the machine and you can boot off that disk and install, OK? Now if you're coming from Vista you can upgrade but you use an Installation Image because Microsoft is building images, putting them on the CD's and then you're installing from them. Now, there's an automated process in the cooperate world that you can utilize something that's called the Windows Deployment Services and you can build images and push these images out the machines and this can get extremely complicated, I would strongly recommend you go out to Microsoft's website. They have some white papers out there because in Microsoft's own roll out for Windows 7, all of their clients or end users, they have 280,000 Desktops and so you can go find information out there. The Windows 7 Resource Kit is fantastic. If you haven't seen it, its 16 hundred pages, I would strongly recommend if you're in a cooperate environment and you're having to deploy this, go get that Resource Kit and look. They have great step by step, page after page after page of deployment stuff. But there are some Deployment Tools that I just want to bring it to your attention if you're in a corporate environment. Now if you're Home User you may want to skip this, I'm going to put you to sleep. There's something out there called the Windows Pre-installation Environment or Windows PE, I'm going to talk about that in a separate video but its what we use now instead of MS-DOS to boot the machine up and to basically boot strap the machine if it's just an empty box with no operating system, this is how we start it up. There's the Windows Recovery Environment, Windows Imaging Tools, this is kind of cool, it's actually built into PE and then Windows Deployment Services that we can use to push those images out to the individual users. Now if you go out to Microsoft's website and you do a search for Windows Desktop Solution Accelerators. Microsoft has a lot of information out there to help you with a Windows 7 roll out in a corporate, a large scale environment. This is an excellent resource they'll help you plan it, they'll help you identify things there's tons of great white papers out there. So all I'm going to do here in the corporate world is just point out to you that you can build an image and they'll step you through it- step by step in the Resource Kit. There's a fair amount of information out there on what's called the Administrator Guide for Windows 7. But you can find tons of this stuff out on Microsoft.com. But deploying Windows 7 can be complicated, it can be involved, there can be a lot of different ways to go about it. So just kind of wanted to show you, tell you about this, show you a couple of resources here and let you know that while we're installing in this course, deploying it is a whole nother horse of another color if you will. Technical term there. But go use some of these resources if you find yourself in an environment of having to push Windows 7 out to a lot of different users.