using vNext in a LAB - Part 10. Deploying Windows 7 Enterprise

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In Part 1. of this series we Installed vNext.

In Part 2., we then Configured vNext to use the New AD Site as a boundary and Configured Discovery Methods in vNext.

In Part 3, we installed the Reporting Point Role along with some additional roles and configured them.

In Part 4 we configured the client Agents and deployed the vNext Client.

In Part 5 we deployed an Application to All Users.

In Part 6 we added Windows Deployment Services, added the PSP role, added the Windows 7 Enterprise image, and updated our boot image for Deploying Windows 7.

In Part 7 we created our Build and Capture Task Sequence, enabled the Network Access Account, Advertised (Deployed) the Task Sequence, and created a new hyper-v virtual machine for capturing the wim on.

In Part 8 we installed WSUS and then the SUP and SLP roles.

In Part 9 we configured SUP and deployed some updates.

 

Now we want to deploy our captured Windows 7 image using a separate Deploy Windows 7 Task Sequence.

 

Step 1. Import the Captured Image

 

In Software Librady, Expand Operating Systems, and right click on Operating System Images, choose Add Operating System image

 

 

fill in some details about your master image

 

 

 

and click Close at the confirmation screen

 

 

 

Browse to the previously captured WIM file

 

 

Fill in some details about the image

 

 

and proceed with the wizard through to the confirmation screen, click close when done.

 

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Step 2. Distribute the image to Distribution Points

 

Highligh our newly created image and right click, choose Distribute Content

 

 

click on the Add drop down menu and choose Distribution Points

 

 

as this is not a boot image, select only the standard DP's

 

 

Click Ok and OK again.

 

 

Step 3. Create the USMT 4 Package

 

In Application Management, right click on Packages and choose Create

 

 

Fill in details about the USMT package, and for source, point to the following path C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\USMT

 

 

Choose Create No Program for this package as none is required

 

 

click next at the summary screen and click close at the confirmation

 

 

Note: Don't forget to Distribute your USMT package to your Distribution Points, to do so follow the way we did above for distributing the Operating System Image (click on Distribute Content and follow the wizard).

 

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Step 4. Create the Deploy Windows 7 X64 Task Sequence

 

Right Click on Task Sequences and choose Create, Task Sequence

 

 

choose the first item, Install an existing image package

 

 

fill in details about our image and select the X64 boot image by clicking on Browse

 

 

on the Install the Windows Operating System image screen appears, click browse

 

 

select our image

 

 

make sure to select the option Always use the same Administrator Password (useful for troubleshooting failed deployments, can be changed later via a script or gpo)

 

 

for Configure The Network, select your domain and enter a user with permissions to join the Domain (domjoin)

 

 

click on browse and select our Configuration Manager Client package we created earlier

 

 

for State Migration select our USMT 4 package which we created above by clicking on browse

 

 

for updates in the image, choose All Software Updates

 

 

for applications don't select any for now !

 

 

click next at the summary, review the progress and close at the confirmation

 

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Step 5. Deploy (advertise) the Task Sequence to the Unknown Computers Collection

 

Highlight our newly created Deploy task sequence, right click and choose Deploy

 

 

when the wizard appears, browse for the All Unknown Computers collection, and make sure to place a checkmark in Make this task sequence available to boot media and PXE

 

 

leave the schedule as it is (optional), click next, set the distribution point settings as follows

 

 

click next through Interaction, Summary, review the progress and finally click close at the confirmation.

 

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Step 6. Create a new hyperV virtual machine

 

Follow these steps to create a new HyperV virtual machine, called Windows 7 Client #2.

 

Once created, start the VM and PXE boot it

 

 

at the welcome to Task Sequence wizard click next

 

 

and select our Deploy Windows 7 X64 Enterprise Task Sequence from the menu and click next

 

 

the deployment begins

 

 

formatting the disc takes a while (we'll fix that later)

 

 

and now we see our captured image is getting applied to our VM

 

 

applies drivers

 

 

then we see the setup windows and configmgr step (involves a reboot)

and after the reboot Setup is updating ...

 

 

after another reboot...

 

the Setup and Windows and configmgr step continues and installs the configmgr client..

 

 

and now our Install Software Updates step takes over

 

 

and then we are done