game_over Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 The time has come for me to re-image a group of machines and i'll looking for the most efficient way of doing it... a few year a go i tried making a 'master image' from one computer that in theory should have been able to use on all other machines... unfortunately i could never get it working, install always failed or i ran into various other issues and i realised it would be much quicker to work on each machine manually. I would like to have another go creating an image but before i spend days running in circles i'm looking for any advice, helps or tips anyone can give me. I am wanting to install Windows 7 x64, silent install, slipstreamed with all updates, have various registry settings in place, preferably have it join a domain without much interaction, install some printers/drivers etc.. basically i want a base machine that will just work that can be distributed with little human interaction.. once it's on the domain i can push out other apps through the group policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i11usive Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Have a run through the following: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523217(v=ws.10).aspx GrayW 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrayW Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 A good tutorial that got me started was http://www.danscourses.com/Windows-7-and-8/how-to-create-a-wim-system-image-file-with-windowsaik-and-windowspe.html There is also: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/windows-7/Deploying-Windows-7-Part1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPreston Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 once it's on the domain i can push out other apps through the group policy. While that's a lot easier to update it does use a lot more resources and time for larger programs like Office and Adobe. The basic process for creating an image is Install windows in a vm install all your programs and updates Make sure you are using local group policy instead of regedit as any changes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER will be ignored (as the current user is deleted) sysprep and shutdown boot from the windows cd and press shift+f10 Dism /Capture-Image /ImageFile:c:\goldimage.wim /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:"goldimage" where c:\ is wherever your os drive is mounted add the .wim to WDS or replace the install.wim on a bootable usb key WDS gives you a GUi to do all this with a capture image but you can do it without a domain or wds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotenks98 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 MDT 2013 can do all of this for you. You might have to check out a few youtube videos to see how it works but it does well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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