SCCM 2012 Prestage media - and bootwim prestart commands?

Hi,
I am using SCCM 2012 SP1 with MDT 2012 and will be using the Bootwim prestart commands.
Prestart Commands for Task Sequence Media in Configuration Manager
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj651034.aspx
Specifically:
"Enable prestart command - Commaand line"
"Include files for prestart command - Source directory"
Windows PE Background - specify custom background image (UNC Path):"
Ok so far so good. Now we want to create prestart media - to give to our
hardware vendor. Am I going to have an issue that the prestage media might
include the bootwim plus its customizations - and can go out of date.
So lets save I give it to the vendor on Monday - all fine. I then make a
change to it on Tuesday - update something inside the boot wim.
How smart is this prestage media will it check the server for a later copy
and use that or am it going to be locked in from when I give it to them.
I also might want to put things like active directory lookups for machine
validate as well.
So can somebody please clarify how the above would work.
Thanks,
Ward.

Normally when you run a Task Sequence and the assigned boot image is different from the boot media you initiated the Task Sequence from, it will download the correct boot image, stage it, and reboot. By default though this creates an issue because
it assumes you booted from removable media and will prompt you to remove it before rebooting to continue. There's a way to bypass this via the tsmbootstrap.ini file, but the default behavior is to prompt.
I have also seen issues with boot image concurrence between prestaged media images and the selected Task Sequence when the functionality was originally introduced in CM07 (http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/07/12/multi-site-dell-cfi-follow-up/) but I
have not heard of it being an issue recently. It should be relatively easy to test; apply the prestaged media image to a test machine, change or update the assigned boot image for the Task Sequence, then see if it successfully pulls down and boots to
the updated WinPE.
Another option is to have your prestart script be relatively generic and have it download the files from a server at run time (ex - download a .CAB from a web server, expand the contents, and launch a script from those downloaded files). That way all you
have to do to update functionality is update the .CAB file, not the prestaged media or boot image.

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May I delete those files or just ignore temp files?
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