2. Acme International, Inc. is a software solution provider company in Australia. The company has its head office in Sydney. The head office of the company has 20 desktop computers with the Windows 8 OS. Recently, the company has purchased 15 brand new desktop computers. The new desktop computers do not have any OS installed on them. Therefore, the management has asked Jack, who works as a System Administrator in the company, to install Windows 8 and configure the new desktop computers. To accomplish the assigned task, Jack has created an image named Win8_64.wim of a reference desktop by using DISM. Now, he wants to deploy the image on all the new desktop computers. Help him do the same.

To deploy the image on a desktop, Jack needs to perform the following tasks:
1. Boot the EBDD_CL3_Blank virtual machine with Windows PE.
2. Format the hard drive of the EBDD_CL3_Blank virtual machine.
3. Deploy the image using the Apply-Image command.


Task 1: Booting the EBDD_CL3_Blank virtual machine with Windows PE

1. Switch to the Hyper-V manager window.
2. Right-click the EBDD_CL3_Blank virtual machine, and then select the Connect option. the Virtual machine
   connection window is displayed.
3. select Media DVD drive Insert Disk. the Open dialog box is displayed.
4. Browse to the D:\EBDD\ISO folder, and then select the WinPE_amd64.iso file.
5. click the open button.
6. click the start button in the virtual machine start booting from the winPE_amd64.iso file.once the booting
   is completed, the command prompt window is displayed. wait till command prompt displays X:\Windows\system32>
7. type ipconfig /renew, and then press the enter key. the IP address is assigned from the DHCP server.

Task 2:Formatting the Hard drive of the EBDD_CL#_Blank virtual machine.

1. type diskpart, and then press the enter key. the DISKPART> prompt is displayed.
2. type select disk=0, and then press the enter key to select disk 0.
3. Type create Partition primary, and then press the Enter key the create the primary partition.
4. type format FS=NTFS Quick, and then press the Enter key to formant the disk.
5. type select partition 1, and then press the enter key to select the first partition.
6. type Active letter-C, and then press the enter key to make the current partition active.
7. type assign letter=C, and then press the enter key to assign the drive letter C to the first partition.
8. type Exit, and then press the enter key to exit the diskpart prompt.

Task 3. Deploying the Image using the Apply-Image command.

1. type net use Z: \\172.16.0.200\iso, and then press the enter key. the Enter the user name for '172.16.0.200' message
   is displayed.
2. type the user name of the host computer, and then press the enter key. the enter the password for '172.16.0.200' message
   is displayed.
3. type the password of the host computer, and then press the enter key. the command completed successfully message
   is displayed.
4. type d: \, and then press the enter key to move to the D:\drive.
5. type Dism /Apply-image /imagefile:Z:\win8_64.wim/index:1 /ApplyDir:C:\, and then press the enter key. After 20-25 minutes,
   the opration completed successfully message is displayed.
6. type cd C:\windows\system32. and then press the enter key to switch to the windows\system32 folder of the C: drive of the virtual
   machine.
7. type bcdboot.exe c:\windows, and then press the enter key to setup boot configuration data on the C: drive of the virtual machine.
8. type exit, and then press the enter key to restart the virtual machine. After a few minutes, the License terms screen is displayed.
9. select the I accept button. the personalize screen is displayed.
10. type MyPC in the PC name text box.
11. click the next button. the setting screen is displayed.
12. click the use express setting button. the sign in to you pc screen is displayed.