

I hope this helps.This article provides the description of basic steps and tips on how to create a “silent”, automated installation of an OS, configure it and test the result. Sysprep is ran with the oobe, generalize, and unattend command line switches. Don't quote me on this as I set this up over a year ago. Log back in as the user with all the profile changes and run the Sysprep command with the copyprofile switchįor some nagging reason I remember reading something to the effect that the built in local admin password needed to be set the same as the secondary local admin that was created.

While logged in as administrator rename the Default users profile folder to something like Default.origĥ. Log back in as administrator and copy the sysprep files over etc.Ĥ. Log in as that user and make the required changesģ. Create a local user that is part of the local administrator group i.e. Also be carefull not to use the same local administrator password as the domain administrator password.ġ. Only thing stopping me from finalising an image!Found some where the instructions for doing this, from memory this is basically what I done to make it work there was also reported problems with doing the copyprofile under the administrator login. I'm also doing this in admin mode (ctrl,shift,f3).Īny sure fire ways of getting this to work (I've trawled the internet and the forums but there's no definitive answer that i've found) However when I customise windows (wallpaper, default theme etc.) these are just not being applied.Ĭopyprofile is in unattend.xml, administrator is the only user - but its just not working for some reason.

So far so good I cant capture images and install without a problem. Playing around with sysprep and WDS in preparation of rolling out windows 7 at some point.
