Here's the situation: We've ordered a few new identical laptops at work. All came with the Windows 7 Professional OEM install.
Is it possible to do an initial install of our specific local apps ( volume-licensed Office 2007, for example ) to one of the laptops, remove extraneous bits of software, and then create an image from this newly-configured machine in order to copy over to the other laptops (and the laptops that we'll be ordering after that, as well).
I know how to do this with XP, but using our volume license--- I'm just wondering what's the best-practice or most appropriate course of action going forward now that it looks like we're shifting to Windows 7 finally.