Comments on: SOLVED: How To Build A Windows 10 Image Using SysPrep and Customize the Default Profile

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:34:30 +0000

In reply to Lau.

Hi Lau;

You can definitely get to “zero touch” but my personal experience is that it is not worth the upfront effort, for the size of clients I have (and the number of machines they want imaged).

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:25:27 +0000

In reply to Pratik. Hi Doshi; That sounds like you might not have completed a the GENERALIZE step in the SYSPREP.

By: Pratik

Pratik — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:04:36 +0000

Hello Ian,
After running the sysprep command, when shutdown and restart the system, I am able to go to network boot but then error Windows failed to start, a recent hardware/software change might be the cause. Error : 0xc000000f.
Please help

By: Lau

Lau — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:57:39 +0000

Great article!
Is there a way to create an unattend file which install the OS without asking anything in the install process?

Thanks you!

By: David Levine

David Levine — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:36:23 +0000

In reply to Ian Matthews. Do you folks or any readers out there have a feeling for which Windows 10 version is best to use in a public lab environment? It's a situation of many new users per machine, so fast logons are desired. I've been trying to use the LTSB version, with limited success. Also have tried using a free utility called DefProf from mm

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:01:50 +0000

In reply to edward. Are you booting to your PC using a CAPTURE boot image that came from the SAME build that you are trying to capture (i.e. in WDS you have to create and use a CAPTURE boot image that was created using the same build of Win10 you have on your reference PC. If that is not the issue, confirm that when you are prompted for a location to save the image during the capture process that you selected a location on the C: drive. I hope that helps.

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 21:26:53 +0000

In reply to david. Hi Ho; I don't think JOIN DOMAIN is the issue. Does your COPYPROFILE.XML contain true ?

By: david

david — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 07:13:36 +0000

Hey Ian, I know this is over a year old, but I’m having trouble with the copy profile. I boot my machine into audit mode, change the desktop and add some items to the taskbar, then sysprep with the copyprofile.xml. Once I capture the image then re-deploy a new machine with that image, all seems well but when I log onto the machine, none of the settings are there. I am auto-joining the domain. Do you think that has anything to do with it?

By: edward

edward — Wed, 31 May 2017 11:33:31 +0000

Getting error when trying to upload image:

could not clean image directory. Image is protected

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Wed, 24 May 2017 23:56:13 +0000

In reply to Tizzy.

Hi Tizzy;

I would rerun step 6 and see what it shows:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

I hope that helps. I have not built an image in the last few months and will not be building another one until late fall.