In last week's Windows IT Pro UPDATE, I discussed Microsoft's newly released Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows Vista Beta 1, which lets administrators and IT pros work with the company's new image-based setup and deployment tools. This week, I look at some of the ways in which you can customize installation images for Vista Beta 1. Setup Manager As with earlier Windows versions, you can use WAIK's Setup Manager to customize some aspects of a Vista installation. Although the WAIK version of Setup Manager creates XML files, the customization features haven't really changed much over earlier versions. In short, you can use Setup Manager to customize the End User License Agreement (EULA) acceptance, user name and organization, computer name, product key, various disk configuration options (including where to install Vista), and the standard "Run Once" list of commands that will run after the installation. If you've performed any type of automated installation of Windows in the past, these options should be familiar to you.