Sysprep a Windows 7 Machine – Start to Finish V2. This is version 2 of a step by step guide on Sysprepping a Windows 7 machine from start to finish. This guide will explain how to utilize a SetupComplete.cmd batch file in a Windows 7 image. The SetupComplete.cmd batch file can basically runs commands after an. It appears that I was a bit premature. Once I performed a full sysprep, the resultant. The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) helps you to install, customize, and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vista Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS) is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that allows taking manual or. ![]() I cannot take full credit on this because my first article had so many helpful comments and discussions that this is simply a combination of all the good advice written into a working guide. There are many tools in the market and I use Spotmau Boot. Suite rescue software and boot disk utility because of it’s versatile features and top notch performance. Last Updated on 0. Proud to announce, this tutorial has been translated to Serbo- Croatian language by WHGeeks This will guide you through the following: Audit Mode. Building the unattend. WSIMcopyprofile=true command to copy the default profile (no manual copy)Prompt for a computer name. ![]() ![]() Find downloads, deployment resources, events, webcasts, and community forums to help you explore, deploy, and manage Windows 7 in your organization. Enable Administrator account. Administrator account logs in first time automatically. Activate windows automatically with Cscript; Successfully copy over taskbar icons; Delete unattend. Here is a list of what you will need: First we are going to walk through building the unattend. Windows 7 imaging process. PART 1 – XML FILE CREATIONStep 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have a Windows 7 installation DVD, insert it now. Or if you have an ISO of 7, go ahead and extract it to a folder on your desktop. Your start menu should look like the image below: Step 3. Under the “Windows Image” header, right click and select new image. Step 4. You will now want to browse to the . CLG file in your Windows 7 installation (I am using Windows 7 Enterprise x. It is located in the sources folder. See Image below. You can select either the . Both will have the same result. Step 5. Now we need to create a new answer file. ![]() ![]() Go to the file menu and select “Create New Answer File.” Right after creating one, go ahead and simply go to file menu and select “Save Answer File.” This will give your XML file a name and save location. I chose to name mine unattend. Now you see we have two category folders, Components and Packages. Under the Components folder you see that we have 7 options: 1 windows. PE2 offline. Servicing. System. 6 audit. User. System. Step 6. These are very important as these are the steps in which the unattend. The next part is a little confusing. You are going to add components, from under the “Windows Image” section on the bottom left hand side to the passes on your Answer File. To add a component, you can right click on them and select “add to # pass”. There are many different options you can add, but they have to be done in a certain order and pass otherwise your sysprep might fail. I am simply going to use the one I created as the example. Here is more information about adding options under the passes: 1 windows. PENothing required in my example. Servicing. Nothing required in my example. Password: Administrator Password. Enabled: true. Logon. Count: 5. Username: administrator. First. Logon. Commands. Command. Line: cscript /b c: \windows\system. XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX (windows 7 license key)Order 1. Requires. User. Input: false. Command. Line: cscript /b c: \windows\system. Order 2. Requires. User. Input: false. Synchronous. Command. Password: Administrator Password. Action: Add. List. Item. Description: Local Administrator. Display. Name: Administrator. Group: Administrators. Name: Administrator. Local. Account. Open up your XML file you saved with notepad and remove the following line: PART 2 – IMAGING PROCESS / RUNNING SYSPREPStep 9. Install Windows 7 (Enterprise) from CD or USB flash drive, when you arrive at the welcome screen and it asks you to create a username, hit ctrl+shift+f. This will reboot your machine and put your windows build in . A sysprep GUI box will appear, but you can close it and NOW begin to customize your profile. Step 1. 1Install any software/drivers, make any profile customizations, etc. If you need to reboot, the computer will boot you back into the Administrator account. You will be stuck in this audit mode until you run sysprep with the /oobe parameter. After doing so, sysprep will delete/clean up the Administrator account, but if you have copyprofile=true in your unattended answer file, it will copy the customized Admin account to the default profile before deleting it. Step 1. 2On the PC you are going to be running sysprep on, you need to create a folder called scripts in this directory: %WINDIR%\Setup\. Now you are going to create a CMD file within the %WINDIR%\Setup\Scripts directory. Right click and make a new text file called Setup. Complete. txt. Remove the . You now have a Setup. Complete. cmd file which windows will read the first time it boots up from the sysprep. We need to place a script inside the CMD file. Edit the cmd file with notepad and insert this line: del /Q /F c: \windows\system. This script will delete your unattend. The unattend. xml file is also copied to the C: \Windows\Panther directory, so you will want to add a second line to the CMD file, del /Q /F c: \windows\panther\unattend. If you have passwords or cd keys stored in that xml file you don’t have to worry about it being left on the computer. UPDATE AS OF FEBRUARY 2. Read my Taskbar Icons Tutorial before continuing. Step 1. 3Once you have everything configured correctly, Copy or move your unattend. C: \windows\system. Now to run sysprep you need to launch Command Prompt as an administrator. To do this press start, and type into the search CMD then right click on CMD and select run as Administrator. Next navigate to the sysprep folder by typing: cd sysprep and pressing enter. Next, input the following commands. You can use our The. ITBros Win. PE3. 1 Boot. Loader to boot up from USB or CD and capture your image. Capture image and save image to network location. A Dell 9. 60 or GX7. Might require injecting additional drivers for 3rd party brands, HP, etc. Most should work though right out of the box. Step 1. 5On reboot, Windows will run out of the box, as the /oobe is intended. As long as you put your cd key into the unattend. You are now ready to use the computer or join it to the domain. Enjoy! Additional. In case you want to sysprep Windows 1. TIP #1. Thanks T8. Apparently I had to stop . See this article: http: //technet. TIP #2. To enable Aero your computer needs to calculate it’s performance score. Do you want to do that on each and every machine? So, if all machines have the same hardware, run this before syspreping your master- image . If the OOBE wizard finds this xml file, and the hardware hasn’t changed, it uses the pre- populate values and Aero works out of the box. TIP #3. From user comment: After many hours of battling, I also found that a registry entry must be added for sysprep to look in the C: \Drivers location. More info here: http: //technet. TIP #4. From user comment: To keep the drivers installed to the computer there has to be a option under “generalize” (Microsoft- Windows- Pnp. Sysprep. Otherwise if one of your device is off, the driver is uninstalled and etc. Sysprep fails because of app installed for a user. I am trying to install five identical computers with Windows 8. Sysprep for the first time on this version of Windows. This package will not function properly in the sysprep image. On my last attempt of this I started with Windows 8. Get- Appx. Package - All.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
August 2017
Categories |