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Backup copy. You may make a single copy of the software for backup purposes, and may also use that backup copy to transfer the software if it was acquired as stand-alone software, as described in Section 4 below. Privacy; Consent to Use of Data. Your privacy is important to us.

Some of the software features send or receive information when using those features. Many of these features can be switched off in the user interface, or you can choose not to use them. By accepting this agreement and using the software you agree that Microsoft may collect, use, and disclose the information as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement aka.

The provisions of this section do not apply if you acquired the software in Germany or in any of the countries listed on this site aka. Software preinstalled on device. If you acquired the software preinstalled on a device and also if you upgraded from software preinstalled on a device , you may transfer the license to use the software directly to another user, only with the licensed device.

The transfer must include the software and, if provided with the device, an authentic Windows label including the product key. Before any permitted transfer, the other party must agree that this agreement applies to the transfer and use of the software. Stand-alone software. If you acquired the software as stand-alone software and also if you upgraded from software you acquired as stand-alone software , you may transfer the software to another device that belongs to you.

You may also transfer the software to a device owned by someone else if i you are the first licensed user of the software and ii the new user agrees to the terms of this agreement. You may use the backup copy we allow you to make or the media that the software came on to transfer the software.

Every time you transfer the software to a new device, you must remove the software from the prior device. You may not transfer the software to share licenses between devices. Authorized Software and Activation. You are authorized to use this software only if you are properly licensed and the software has been properly activated with a genuine product key or by other authorized method. When you connect to the Internet while using the software, the software will automatically contact Microsoft or its affiliate to conduct activation to associate it with a certain device.

You can also activate the software manually by Internet or telephone. In either case, transmission of certain information will occur, and Internet, telephone and SMS service charges may apply. If activation fails, the software will attempt to repair itself by replacing any tampered Microsoft software with genuine Microsoft software. You may also receive reminders to obtain a proper license for the software.

Successful activation does not confirm that the software is genuine or properly licensed. You may not bypass or circumvent activation. To help determine if your software is genuine and whether you are properly licensed, see aka. Certain updates, support, and other services might only be offered to users of genuine Microsoft software. The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and downloads and installs them for you. You may obtain updates only from Microsoft or authorized sources, and Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with those updates.

By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice. Downgrade Rights. If you acquired a device from a manufacturer or installer with a Professional version of Windows preinstalled on it and it is configured to run in full feature mode, you may use either a Windows 8. This agreement applies to your use of the earlier versions. If the earlier version includes different components, any terms for those components in the agreement that comes with the earlier version apply to your use of such components.

Neither the manufacturer or installer, nor Microsoft, is obligated to supply earlier versions to you. You must obtain the earlier version separately, for which you may be charged a fee. At any time, you may replace an earlier version with the version you originally acquired. Geographic and Export Restrictions. If your software is restricted for use in a particular geographic region, then you may activate the software only in that region.

You must also comply with all domestic and international export laws and regulations that apply to the software, which include restrictions on destinations, end users, and end use. For further information on geographic and export restrictions, visit aka. Support and Refund Procedures. For software preinstalled on a device. For the software generally, contact the device manufacturer or installer for support options.

Refer to the support number provided with the software. There is a difference between the HS classification number and the Schedule B number.

The HS number is an internationally accepted code. The basic HS code contains 6-digits, known as a subheading. The Schedule B is a digit code built upon the first 6 digits of the HS code. The Harmonized System HS Classification is a 6-digit standardized numerical method of classifying traded products.

HS numbers are used by customs authorities around the world to identify products for the application of duties and taxes. This is true for WinPE images as well. Mounting an image extracts the contents of an image file to a location where it can be viewed and modified.

Throughout this lab we'll use DISM to mount and modify images. DISM comes with Windows, but we'll be using the version that is installed by the ADK, which we'll access through the Deployment and imaging tools environment. Some packages have dependencies and require other packages to be installed.

For these packages, you'll have to install the dependencies before you add the a package. Here's how to add Powershell support for en-us:. Only add additional packages when necessary. The more packages you add, the greater the impact to boot time and performance.

You'll only need to do this if WinPE doesn't already include the drivers for your hardware. For example:. Setting WinPE to use high-performance mode will speed deployment. The sample scripts set WinPE to high-performance mode when they run, but if you want to make sure that WinPE always runs in high-performance mode, you can modify startnet.

See WinPE: Optimize and shrink the image for more details. If you've added extra files in your WinPE image, you can delete them to reduce your image size and improve performance. When you're done working with your image, you can commit your changes and unmount your image. From the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment:. Turn off the reference device, and then boot to the USB drive. You usually do this by powering on the device and quickly pressing a key for example, the Esc key or the Volume up key.

On some devices, you might need to go into the boot menus to choose the USB drive. WinPE starts at a command line, and runs wpeinit to set up the system. This can take a few minutes. Now that you have your WinPE image customized for your deployment, we'll get into how to get your Windows image ready for deployment.

The process is similar to how we changed our WinPE image, but Windows has many additional customization options. You can make either offline or online or online customizations to a Windows image.

Offline customizations are done to the windows image install. In most scenarios, offline customizations are customizations you perform from the Technician PC. The table below shows which customizations can be made online and offline.

In this section we'll cover how to mount Windows images on your technician PC. Mounting a Windows image is the same process that we used to mount the WinPE image earlier. When we mount our Windows image install. Updating install. We showed you how to set it up in the Get the tools you need section.

Before working on your Windows image, you want to make sure you have a backup copy in case something goes wrong. Make a copy of the original image:. First copy the install. We'll export the Home image from install. Where D: is the drive letter of the mounted installation media.

Export the Home edition index 2 from install. WinRE can repair common causes of unbootable operating systems. Make your changes, unmount the WinRE image, then unmount the Windows image. If you're adding any of the following to your image, you should also update your recovery image with the same changes:. If winre. If DISM processes are interrupted, consider temporarily disconnecting from the network and disabling virus protection. With your images mounted, you can start customizing.

We'll show you how to make offline customizations to your Windows image. Offline customizations are changes that you can make to a mounted image without having to boot into the Windows installation.

First, we'll walk through adding and removing languages from your Windows image. In this section, we'll show you how to add languages to a Windows installation. Features on demand FODs are Windows feature packages that can be added at any time. When a user needs a new feature, they can request the feature package from Windows Update. OEMs can preinstall these features to enable them on their devices out of the box.

Common features include language resources like handwriting recognition. Some of these features are required to enable full Cortana functionality. In this section, we'll add languages and Features On Demand to your Windows image. We'll add the German de-de language pack, then we'll add the Japanese ja-jp language. Japanese is an example of a language that requires additional font support. If you install an update that contains language-dependent resources prior to installing a language pack, the language-specific changes in the update won't be applied when you add the language pack.

You need to reinstall the update to apply language-specific changes. To avoid reinstalling updates, install language packs before installing updates. Language updates have a specific order they need to be installed in. Make sure that you are using language packs and features on demand that match the architecture of the image you are working with. Below are examples for building bit systems.

When we add language components and Features on Demand, we'll use the mounted ISO as the source for these packages. Some language-specific fonts were separated out into different language. In this section, we'll add the ja-JP language along with support for Japanese fonts. This section covers how to change the default language and timezone of your mounted Windows image.

Use DISM to set the default language of the image. We'll set the default language to German, since we added it into our image in the previous steps. Here we'll set the time zone.

See Default time zones for a list of available time zones. Now that our image has been set to use German as the default language, we can remove the English language features from it and make it a non-English image.

To remove en-US completely from the image, you'll have to remove several components. Troubleshooting: If an error occurs when running these commands, try the command again on the package that failed. Here we'll show you how to add languages to WinRE. Adding languages to WinRE ensures that the language that a customer expects is available in recovery scenarios. Follow these steps if you added languages to your Windows image.

Note that for Japanese, we will add an additional cab that is for font support. Similar to removing the base language in install. You can add drivers to ensure Windows can successfully boot for the first time.

Make sure that you add your driver to the right image:. The following shows how to add drivers in various ways. If your hardware doesn't require any additional drivers, you don't have to add any. If you're creating several devices with identical hardware configurations, you can speed up installation time and first boot-up time by maintaining driver configurations when capturing a Windows image.

Add a single driver that includes an. In this example, we're using a driver named media1. Read White Paper. Read Brief. Read Solution Brief. Maximize your cloud investment. Use Live Optics to compare costs for free.



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