Nice "blogcast" on ImageX

Chris Haaker over at the Blogcastrepository has created a great "blogcast" (screencast for some) on how to use ImageX.  https://blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/37/windows_workstation/entry1586.aspx

For those of you who aren't familiar with ImageX, it is the new imaging tool that will be released with Windows Vista for creating images of workstations using Microsoft's WIM file format.

I've been asked numerous times what the difference is between the WIM file format and the Ghost file format.  Other than the obvious file extension, the WIM format does a file based image as opposed to a sector based image as with other imaging tools.  This allows you to easily apply offline patches and make modifications to files inside of an image without having to apply the image, make the change, and re-apply the image.

There is a great overview of ImageX here: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/expert/imagex.mspx

If you would like to try it for yourself, sign up for the open beta of BDD 2007 on https://connect.microsoft.com