
470 ZENworks for Desktops 4.0.1 Administration Guide
Novell Confidential Manual (99a) 28 October 2003
You do this in ConsoleOne by using the Imaging property page (on the Common tab) of the
Application object. For details, click Help on that property page.
An add-on image created in this manner is not fully installed on the target computer until after
the computer reboots from being imaged and Application Launcher/Explorer starts up and
runs the new Application object. Deploying the image is essentially another way to distribute
an Application object.
Drag files into a new image archive using Image Explorer
You do this by starting Image Explorer, dragging files and folders from an existing Windows
installation into the new image archive, and saving the archive to a file with a .zmg extension.
For more information, see “Image Explorer (Imgexp.exe)” on page 479.
Generally, an add-on image created in this manner doesn’t require any post-processing on the
target computer. It is simply a set of files that are copied to the appropriate locations on the
hard disk, much like what happens when you unzip a WinZip archive. One exception is that
the add-on image can contain Windows registry (.reg) files that will be applied to the registry
automatically when the computer reboots after being imaged, if the Imaging Agent is installed
on the computer. For more information, see “Customizing an Image” on page 470.
Customizing an Image
After you have created a base or add-on image as explained in the previous sections, you can
customize it using the Image Explorer utility. Specifically, you can:
Compress the image
You can compress an image (including images created by previous versions of ZfD) by 40-
60% of the original file size. There are three compression options. Optimize for Speed takes
the least amount of time but creates the largest compressed image file. This option is used by
default when an image is created. Optimize for Space creates the smallest image file but might
take a significant amount of time. Balanced is a compromise between compression time and
image file size.
(You can also use the options on the ZENworks Imaging Configuration property page for the
workstation object in ConsoleOne to specify compression options if you do not want the
default, Optimize for Speed.)
Purge deleted files
Excluded or hidden files and folders can be completely removed from an open image. This
saves space in the image if you no longer want to include the files.
Exclude individual files and folders from the image
In doing this, you create variants of the image by specifying which of ten possible filesets
(variants) to exclude a given file or folder from. The variants exist merely as internal attributes
of the same image archive.
WARNING: Do not exclude .bpb files from a base image or the workstation won’t be able to boot the new
operating system after receiving the image.
Add files and folders to the image
By default, any file or folder you add is included in all variants. To change this, you must
explicitly exclude the file or folder from one or more variants.
Add Windows registry (.reg) files
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