Sysprep (Generalize) a Windows installationĤ.1 Auxiliary network bootable executive: Windows PE. Please generalize your reference PC as explained here: If a single computer has multiple operating systems, you must run Sysprep on each image individually. When you generalize an image, Windows replaces the computer SID only on the operating system volume where you ran Sysprep. Even if you're capturing an image that's going to be deployed to a PC with similar/identical hardware, you still have to generalize the Windows installation to remove unique PC-specific information from a Windows installation, which allows you to safely reuse your image. To capture a Windows image, you have to first generalize the installed image. Later on this image can be offered for network deployment to different target PC systems. Next you should net capture the image of the Reference PC into a WIM file which will be stored in Serva repository. The Reference system must be first generalized using Sysprep by removing computer-specific information such as installed drivers and computer security identifier (SID), etc. Let's consider you have a reference PC that has been customized with software and settings, and you would like to take an image of this PC and later apply it to other PCs.
In this chapter we explore Serva's capabilities emulating WDS/MDT capture & deployment features as an extension of the concepts developed in PXE/BINL - AN02: Windows Network Install (Adv) & WinPE Boot PXE/BINL - AN06: Windows Network Image Capture & Deploy on ARM 0 Indexġ.1.1 Microsoft Windows Serva 4.6.0 "Pro" or higher.ġ.2.1 PXE/BINL - AN01: Windows Network Install - Basisġ.2.2 PXE/BINL - AN01.1: Windows Network Install - WDS OSsġ.2.3 PXE/BINL - AN02: Windows Network Install (Adv) & WinPE Boot PXE/BINL - AN03: Non-Windows Network Boot/Install PXE/BINL - AN02: Windows Network Install (Adv) & WinPE Boot PXE/BINL - AN01.2: Windows Network Install - RIS OSs PXE/BINL - AN01.1: Windows Network Install - WDS OSs PXE/BINL - AN01: Windows Network Install - Basis Procedures described in this document require Serva "Pro" It is all based on Serva's new Task Sequence Engine (TSE) not requiring to follow cryptic procedures nor being dependant on Microsoft’s WDS/WAIK/ADK
The objective of this document is to show you how to network image a reference PC installed with a WDS OSs (MS Vista and up) and later network deploy the previously captured image to any target PC.
Starting an automated network image Capture and Deploy of WDS OSs, taking no more than 15 minutes and a ~4 MB download. PXE/BINL - AN05: Windows Network Image Capture & Deploy