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This image is also prepared with sysprep only once which helps prevent the random issues with images that have had sysprep run on them many times.Doesn't it seem boring to do the most weary task day after day, machine by machine, taking up an hour or more from your time just to make one device ready to be used?įormatting PCs "or installing Windows" was (and still) one of the most frustrating tasks that any helpdesk engineer or PC maintenance shop need to do. With MDT automating the process of installing the operating system, drivers, updates, applications, and the capture of the image you ensure that each time you want to update an image the image is rebuilt in a consistent automated fashion.

Decreases the risk of introducing configuration errors.

No interaction required by the user or deployment technician.

Easy to add/remove components for testing.

Uses built in mechanisms of setup to add drivers and updates to the install.

Requires no modification of the default install.wim.

Consistent process for building the reference image.

This is advantageous for several reasons including (but not limited to): The difference is that you rebuild your reference image from scratch each time and sysprep is only run once.

Deploy the image to your hardware using the "Deploy Custom Image Version #2" task sequence.

Create a new task sequence to deploy it, for example "Deploy Custom Image Version #2".

Import this new image into MDT (Same as before).

MDT installs Windows and all your other components and also runs sysprep and captures the image for you (Same as before).

On your reference system (physical or virtual) boot into the Lite Touch image and choose the "Build reference image" task sequence.

Update the "Build reference image" task sequence with your changes.

Update your Deployment Share with the new applications, drivers etc.

Deploy the image to your hardware using the "Deploy Custom Image Version #1" task sequenceįast forward 3 days/weeks/months later, you need to make revisions to the image.Create a task sequence to deploy it such as "Deploy Custom Image version #1".

MDT installs Windows and all your other components and also runs sysprep and captures the image for you.As part of this task sequence choose the option to prepare and capture the image.Create task sequence called "Build reference image".The recommended method for updating your 'base' image is to rebuild it from scratch, and you can (and should) automate this process in MDT: