Offlinesysprep Vista

Deploying Vista with Sysprep and Imagex. Whats Needed Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK for Windows. Vista. An x. 86 or x. Windows XP SP2. Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2. Create Universal Ghost or WIM Image. Talking about hardware independed image,mostly began by windows vista. OfflineSysPrep if. OfflineSysPrep Page 1 Universal Imaging DriverPacks. Forum The support forum for the DriverPacksSP1 operating. On this computer you will install the WAIK. A PC with Windows Vista already installed. A PC to install Windows Vista on can be the same PC A Win. PE 2. 0 CD or USB Flash Drive. Offlinesysprep Vista' title='Offlinesysprep Vista' />A Windows Server 2. Domain environment Assumptions. These instructions. Ultimate or Business versions of Vista lt enter means press the Enter key. You know how to open an elevated. Vista. You have a basic understanding of Image. X and the WAIKYou have a basic understanding of DOSBasic Steps Install and configure Windows Vista along with. PC. Using the WAIK and WSIM, create a Sysprep. Windows. Vista. Copy the Sysprep. PC. Run Sysprep. PC. Vista installation for imaging. Boot the sysprepped PC with a Win. PE CD or. UFD and capture an image of the hard drive. Save the image to a network share or removable. Apply the saved image to other PCs. On first boot up of the newly imaged PCs, mini setup. I have existing WIM files I use for my. Then install Windows Vista SP2. Finally, sysprep the image again. I was really hoping for an offline method for. Offlinesysprep Vista' title='Offlinesysprep Vista' />Windows. Vista. Login and use the PC. Overview     1. Create. Win. PE 2. 0 CD or USB Flash Drive UFD. Win. PE 2. 0 can be used to boot up a PC, and either capture. PC or apply an already created image. PC. You will need a Win. Offlinesysprep Vista' title='Offlinesysprep Vista' />Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta is an. System32Sysprep. Windows Vista SP2 offline by using. Hi all,Just starting to get to grips with Vista, Sysprep and unattended installations. I was wondering if its possible to edit the unattend. Note Sysprep in Vista can be run with a GUI interface. Although generally, you would not do this, if you type just sysprep. The following illustration shows the work flow for this scenario. When you service an offline image. In Windows VistaВ. Sysprep Technical Reference. PE 2. 0 CD or UFD to complete. Install. Windows Vista on a reference PC. Use the Windows System Image Manager WSIM to. Windows Vista DVD or UFD, can automate. PC Run. an unattended install of Windows Vista. You dont have to. Vista on the reference PC. You can manually install it using the DVD. Note These instructions assume. Clean. Install of Vista. Not only would I. Windows operating system. Sysprep. is meant to be used only with clean installs. Configure the reference PC, then using Sysprep. PC for Imaging. 4. Create an Image of the reference. PC. Boot the Sysprepped. PC with the Win. PE CD or UFD, create an image. PC using Image. X, and save the image to a Windows. Apply that image to a new PC or PCs. Configuring the Reference PC     Hopefully, you have standards. The more homogenous your desktop environment is, the. PCs and maintain PCs. If you. are in an environment where there is a hodge podge. Assuming then, you have established. PC that will be the basis of your. Of course, if you are a larger. If this is the case, you might. PC to build. Once you have Windows Vista installed on your reference. PC, you will need to configure it. This PC will be. the basis of the image that is applied to your end. PCs. How you configure. PCs will be predicated on your standards. Below are some. suggestions for configuring the Windows. Vista operating system settings on your reference PC. Get and install the latest. BIOS In addition to the latest BIOS, get and install. Windows Vista OEM updates updates your PC manufacturer. Run Windows Update Update hardware drivers if needed Configure Windows Explorer settings Configure Internet Explorer. Configure Desktop settings Configure Start. Menu settings Configure Task bar. Configure Windows. Sidebar settings if you want to use this Add anything you want to run at login to the startup. Task Manager CheckConfigure. System. settings Device Manager, Paging file, DEP. Restore Points, Remote Access, Performance settings. Hibernation file do you want this, Time Zone and. Time and Power Settings Additional Configuration Settings. Default Profile If you want all. PC to start out with. Rename the current C UsersDefault folder to Default. It will be the. original Default profile folder. You dont have to do. Under the C Users folder, create a new folder. Default. This will become the new Default profile. In the Sysprep. xml file, see below you will. Copy. Profile setting to True under the. Microsoft Windows Shell Setupneutral. Pass 4. What this setting will do is copy. Sysprep is run. to the C UsersDefault folder. Now, all users who login. Each new user who. PC has a profile created for them. It is. built from a combination of the Default profile and what. All Users profile which is now. Public profile and certain data pulled. C Program. Data folder. When configuring a PC for imaging, I like to login to the PC as a member. Domain Admins group, configure the PC and install any apps. This gives. me administrative access to the PC, and also provides a user profilelogin that. PCs using this PCs image. You will probably have to change. PCs, and this loginprofile. See additional notes at the bottom Setup. Complete. cmd this batch file. Windows is installed, but before the logon. Windows Setup searches for the Setup. Complete. cmd. file in the C WindowsSetupScripts folder. If a Setup. Complete. For example, I created a Setup. Complete. cmd file. C WindowsSetupScripts folder to modify some registry. I put the. reg file that Setup. Complete. calls, in the C WindowsSetup folder. When Vista is being installed, but just before first login. Setup. Complete. cmd file is run and the registry settings. Click here to see these files. You can use Setup. Complete. cmd to copy files to the PC. File Crack Cad 2005. For. more information about Setup. Complete. cmd click. Note. You do not. Setup. Complete. cmd run or have interaction with it. Setup. Complete. cmd. Once you have the above done, but. PC and capture an image of the. PC as it is now. This will provide a clean Vista PC. If you should. have problems when installing applications, while configuring. PC, you can always apply this clean OS. PC. It will save you from having. OS all over again. Additionally. if you have multiple images to create, and limited hardware. You can now install, configure and test any applications that. Be sure you test the PC before imaging. If. your end users will not be a member of the local administrators group, then login. PC as a user who is not a member of the local administrators group. You dont want to deploy an image to 1. PCs just to find an application. Creating. the Sysprep. You. now need to create the sysprep. Windows Vista how to configure. PC. Sysprep. xml will automate answering the. Windows Vista normally asks when you install. Computer name, product key, creating a local. The sysprep. xml file can be named anything you want. I am just choosing to use. Sysprep. xml is created using the. Windows System Image Manager WSIM. WSIM is part. of the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows. Vista WAIK. If you need to know how to use WSIM. Automated. Installs of Windows Vista. WSIM is used to. create both the sysprep. Vista install. Below are the components and their settings used in. To see the actual. Task. Component Preferred Pass Skip. Rearm1. This will allow you to reset Activation. This is useful if you will. Sysprep multiple times. If you set Skip. Rearm0, or leave out the component. Activation will be reset, or rearmed to 3. However, you can only rearmreset activation 3. Microsoft Windows Licensing Security SLCneutral. Run a command to enable the local Administrator. Right click the Components heading, choose Insert Synchronous Command to Pass. Specialize. Type the following into the Path field net user administrator active yes Then set Order1, if is not set. Microsoft Windows Deploymentneutral 4 Tell Vista to skip Auto Activation you. There is only one setting here Skip. Auto. ActivationTrue. Microsoft Windows Security Licensing SLC UXneutral. Computer. Name use an asterisk. Additional notes below. Copy. Profiletrue this will copy.