Business Desktop Deployment for Windows Vista
Many things have changed in Windows Vista that will significantly help ease the deployment processes. These include the new out-of-the-box imaging technologies, the XML-based migration scripts, new tools for image engineering (ImageX and System Image Manager), enhancements to the unattend.xml format, as well as an updated version of the Business Desktop Deployment Solution (BDD 3.0) to provide guidance on deployments. As with any advancement in technologies, getting the maximum benefit requires understanding the tools and technologies, some experimentation and absorption time along with best practices on deployment.
BDD 3.0 will be the best practice guidance on how to optimally deploy Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system. A pre-release version of BDD 3.0 will be available for download on June 8. This download will include all the deployment tools you’ll need, as well. To provide guidance and simplify deployments, BDD uses an integrated deployment workbench, built on top of innovative deployment tools such as ImageX, System Image Manager, Windows PE 2.0 and Windows Deployment Services.
More Information: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/deploy/bddguid.mspx