deploy and capture vs capture and deploy.

[doctora]

I am new to this and I am a bit confused. If I have a blank machine and I do a delpoy and capture and use it as my base image it works perfectly. I have a nice shiny new windows 7 pc.

 

Now if I want to add office, .Net framework, virtual client and a couple other features that I know all my machines will need and then create a new WIM file from that and deply it works fine except that it installs on D.

 

I have read through the blogs and I have seen advice to use deploy and capture but how would I get some of the other stuff in the image. There might be a guide or post out there that I missed but I have spent the last two weeks looking through the guides and posts and I can't seem to find anything that works.

 

If the only option is to add the other stuff as packages and include them during the install then I will do that but I was under the impression that it could be done as a single image.

 

Thanks in advance

Mark

[Peter van der Woude]

How do you create the new WIM image (what does your task sequence looks like)? Did you build it of the original Windows 7 source?

[tmiller_hockey]

You can add your applications to the machine and then from the console create a "Capture Media Disk" you can then utilize it to capture your finished machine.

[doctora]

From my initial deploy and capture build I installed a base Windows 7 system. I then added my components and used a Capture Media Disk to capture the machine.

Task Sequence

1) Install an existing image package

2) Task sequence name - "Test build" : Description - "Test Build Description" : Boot image - 64bit

3) Image package - The one I built : Image "All Images" : No product key : Disable local administrator

4) Join a workgroup "WORKGROUP" : No other oprions selected.

5) Select the Client.

6) Deselect all State Migration.

7) Do not install updates.(I did this on the original Base image)

8) No added Applications.

 

I did not mess with rightclick -> edit Task sequence.

 

Thanks for helping with this.

Mark