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Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

You're reading from   Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Take a deep dive into the world of Windows desktop deployment using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782172499
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jeff Stokes Jeff Stokes
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Imaging Concepts and Theory FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Environment 3. Creating Reference Images 4. Default User Profile Customization 5. CustomSettings.ini and Task Sequence 6. Drivers 7. Image Deployment 8. USMT – The User State Migration Tool 9. Troubleshooting Deployment Logs 10. Validating the Image 11. Database, UserExit Scripts, and Web Services A. Additional Enterprise Configuration Items

Deployment


The virtual machine will go through the boot process, as shown in the following screenshot:

Here, BIOS in the virtual machine has posted and it is booting up

We must then specify the task sequence that we wish to run:

Note that now our task sequence engine skipped some screens. Our CustomSettings.ini has specified the following:

SkipCapture=NO 
SkipAdminPassword=YES 
SkipProductKey=YES 
SkipBitLocker=YES 
SkipDomainMembership=YES 
JoinWorkgroup=Workgroup 
SkipFinalSummary=YES 
SkipLocaleSelection=YES 
SkipSummary=YES 
SkipTimeZone=YES 
SkipUserData=YES 

As we specified SkipCapture=NO in the preceding code, the Capture Image screen wizard is displayed as follows:

The task sequence will then execute through the OS install, apply Windows updates and application installations, and then Sysprep and capture the image:

After the Sysprep is complete, the WIM is captured. This cannot be done with the running system, so MDT needs...

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