Installing IE 8 Beta 1 as part of an MDT 2008 Lite Touch deployment
The Internet Explorer team described how to slipstream IE 8 Beta 1 into a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 image using the process described at https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/06/20/slipstreaming-ie8.aspx. Here's the same basic process with MDT 2008:
- Download the needed version(s) of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
x86: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C3C6E8C1-BD91-490B-86F5-F3652DD691DE&displaylang=en
x64: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D399733E-D4A9-44FD-821B-1C52D3C677E3&displaylang=en - Extract the updates from the downloaded self-extracting installer files (into separate folders if you downloaded both platforms in step #1).
x86: IE8-WindowsVista-x86-enu.exe /x:c:\temp\ie8x86 - x64: IE8-WindowsVista-x64-enu.exe /x:c:\temp\ie8x64
- Import the IE 8 updates into Deployment Workbench (right click on the "OS Updates" node and choose "New") by pointing it to the subdirectories you created above.
- Deploy an OS :-)
Here's what the updates look like in Workbench: