Windows 7 Image

[sothpaw]

Currently using Config Manager 2007 to deploy our companys new Windows 7 x64 Enterprise Edition operating system. We have a solid image and are able to deploy it on laptops and workstations just fine.

 

I have taken this one machine with a computer name of UCLA, and have updated it and made the necessary changes to my customize new image. I made all of the customizations on UCLA under the local "Admin" profile. Nobody has logged into this using any other different profiles. I am able to push this new customize image out via Config Manager 2007.

 

Problem: When I push this new customize image out to another computer it will keep the same computer name (UCLA) of the computer I made all the customizations on. Now if I "SysPrep" this machine and then boot it up into the PE environment get ImageX to copy the image just fine, but when this UCLA computer restarts when Windows comes back up it's removing pretty much all of my custom settings and making me go through all prompts and not joining the computer to our company's domain.

 

How do I go about creating a new image from our old image. Is there any walk through guides on this?

 

Thanks,

 

J

[anyweb]

short answer, you don't.

 

use the best practise method of Build and Capture Windows 7 to build (and then capture) a reference (gold) image containing the big apps (office 2010 etc) that you want in your image,

 

once done you'll have a captured WIM file. Create another task sequence (deploy windows 7) to deploy this captured wim and this task sequence can install all your dynamic changes, customisations etc.

 

this method will save you hours of time and is very repeatable, automatable, etc.

 

in fact, it's the method described right here

 

cheers

niall