Surface pro 3 Sysprep

[mginter82]

I have been trying to sysprep some surface pro 3's with no luck. I have tried with the oem image (new out of box) and with bitlocker enable then disable, tpm off, secure boot off and after it is shutdown it will not pxe boot. also wondering if there is a way to re-arm the oem key(slic) if using a non oem image/ litetouch.

 

Thanks

[anyweb]

why on earth would you want to do that ? OEM images are for OEM use only,

 

you should create a new image using MDT or Configuration Manager as I explain here

 

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11685-5-video-series-on-deploying-the-microsoft-surface-pro-3-available-now

 

then you can deploy that captured image to as many Surface Pro 3's as you want, including other hardware too.

[mginter82]

Thanks for the link. Very helpful

Now if I don't have a VL key how do I activate the oem windows key?

 

Thanks

[anyweb]

you don't, that's the whole point of OEM, it's designed to be installed only on the hardware it ships on,

if you want to deploy an image to multiple machines then you should not be using OEM media

[mginter82]

Ok, I've got everything working for pxe booting the Surface. Thanks

 

Now I'm doing the ubs media for the offline install and the drive is fat32 but my wim is 11gb is there any other way to do this other then dism /split-image.

[mginter82]

I figured it out using a external hard drive with two partitions. One question I have is when booting up in advanced there is no command prompt option. Is there anyway to fix this ?

thanks again

[mginter82]

One more question when trying to capture an image in vm workstation 10 it takes about six hours. I am running a hp proliant dl380 g5 with duel quad cores and 32gb ram. It is the wds/mdt and dhcp server . VM nic setting is bridged as host and I'm am capturing to a usb hard drive . Thanks