I have been working on imaging Dell Ultrabooks for the company I work for. Originally I had an image that included a couple pieces of software (office 2007, java, flash and Citrix etc). I had an image setup and task sequence that would run succesfully. However it did have a few bugs that I would manually correct each time I imaged a machine. Eventually I figured out why some most of the bugs were occuring. So we decided to start over with a clean image. So I created a bootable USB device to install a fresh copy of Windows 7. I installed this on the Ultrabook. Then immediately sysprepped it and captured the image off it. I didn't think I needed to do anything else because the rest of the applications and drivers would be installed via the task sequence I had created. So I added the image to the task sequence. Made a standalone media to run it and ran it. The task sequence started, and it worked just fine up until it came to the last section to install the software and then it failed.
My first thought was maybe it was an issue with the package, but even trying other packages I was still getting the same error. So this led to me do to some more research. I found that in most cases they say to use an unattend.xml file when doing a sysprep. Now I've gone through numerous threads/forums and technet articles and was able to setup an unattend file, and it works fine. However my problem is I still need to get software installed and all the articles I've read state to install the software before sysprepping, which isn't what I want to do.
I would like to be able to install the applications seperately and keep the base image clean. This way if we update anything we don't have to recreate the base image.
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I have been working on imaging Dell Ultrabooks for the company I work for. Originally I had an image that included a couple pieces of software (office 2007, java, flash and Citrix etc). I had an image setup and task sequence that would run succesfully. However it did have a few bugs that I would manually correct each time I imaged a machine. Eventually I figured out why some most of the bugs were occuring. So we decided to start over with a clean image. So I created a bootable USB device to install a fresh copy of Windows 7. I installed this on the Ultrabook. Then immediately sysprepped it and captured the image off it. I didn't think I needed to do anything else because the rest of the applications and drivers would be installed via the task sequence I had created. So I added the image to the task sequence. Made a standalone media to run it and ran it. The task sequence started, and it worked just fine up until it came to the last section to install the software and then it failed.
My first thought was maybe it was an issue with the package, but even trying other packages I was still getting the same error. So this led to me do to some more research. I found that in most cases they say to use an unattend.xml file when doing a sysprep. Now I've gone through numerous threads/forums and technet articles and was able to setup an unattend file, and it works fine. However my problem is I still need to get software installed and all the articles I've read state to install the software before sysprepping, which isn't what I want to do.
I would like to be able to install the applications seperately and keep the base image clean. This way if we update anything we don't have to recreate the base image.
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