Supply .wim to hardware manufacturer for pre-imaging

[jc1875]

Hi

We've an option with our hardware supplier to provide an image, and they'll image this onto the hard drives of the machines before we get them.

At the most basic level, it means we can purchase machines with the lowest (cheapest) windows OS and our SA allows us to upgrade to any version of windows we like ie enterprise.

 

So, we've got our existing internal deployments working fine, captured an image and use it to deploy and refresh existing pcs.

 

My question is, is it as simple as

1. supplying the captured .wim (with the latest OS patches etc applied)
2. importing the machines MAC and name
3. adding machines to a collection
4. apply a copy of the standard new computer TS with the imaging part removed

 

It almost seems too good to be true.....

[teamfox201]

Your hardware supplier should have all that documented and they should be able to answer those questions. I know Dell has you set up your task sequence a certain way so that after the generic steps run at the factory and custom settings ( domain join) happen When you turn it on.