In this objective you’ll learn how to support many of these types of installations. Installations can be lite-touch and zero-touch, too, and include unique answer files to reduce the amount of human contact required during the installation process. You can also perform installations via a network by enabling the computers to locate the installation files on a network server. As an enterprise network administrator, you can configure a reference computer exactly as you want it, install drivers, software, specialty screen savers, and so on, and then create an image of that computer to use for workstation installations. You can install Windows 8.1 as Windows To Go, native virtual hard disk (VHD), and as part of a multiboot system, for example. You can install an operating system in many ways beyond the familiar upgrade-with-a-DVD or boot-to-a-DVD method.

Objective 1.1: Support operating system installation

Objective 1.3: Support Windows Store and cloud apps.

Objective 1.1: Support operating system installation.

Finally, you’ll learn how network administrators can make their own apps available to users in a process called sideloading. You’ll learn how to support desktop apps in many ways, too, including how to run those apps in virtual, cloud, or remote environments when running them on each workstation isn’t ideal. In this chapter you’ll learn how to support various operating system installations that are, for the most part, already in place, ranging from the most basic Windows 8.1 installations to native virtual hard disks to specialty Windows installations unique to a single enterprise. It contains valuable information regarding the skills you need to pass the exam.

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