WDS: Creating a Capture Image

How to create a Capture Image to create a master image of Windows 7 x64 bit system to deploy via a network

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so now we're going to do is configure
our boot image and our server so we can
capture the image from our windows
server workstation and take a look under
install images we see our install group
1 this is our install image which is all
the configuration for windows 7
enterprise to be installed on a blank
computer from scratch and take a look at
our boot image
here's our boot image and it's for
64-bit architecture so we can actually
boot the system and to some options to
do we need to do to install windows so
the computer will boot off the boot
image and then start the install process
which is coming from our install in ok
so we're going to select our server and
take a look at some of the properties
which have already been set from the
wizard that we ran so we're going to
right-click and select properties on our
server and take a look at some of these
options here that we have pics response
this is one where we actually said
respond all own computers right so that
one's checked already and this is how
quick the server respond to clients how
many seconds going to delay i have to
give that two-second delay so we can
actually make some modifications we need
to work quickly interrupted boot process
next under boot it says here that the
server will allow clients to boot to it
but then it's going to require you to
push f12 in order to continue and that's
all great if you're sitting right there
in front of the computer and you can
quickly press f12 but for our virtual
world and our testing environment here
we're going to set that to always
continue to fix the boot for now so set
for both known and unknown clients to
always continue the pixi boot
we can change this back as soon as we're
done imaging this process but that have
12 option is nice to have set and then
the default boot image it will we only
have one boot image so it will use that
one but if we wanted to we could browse
and select the boot image there and
we're gonna be coming back to that here
in a second okay next we got to client
and this is where we can tell it's not
join the domain after its done imaging
and to enable unattended install and we
take a look at the under-10 file here in
second will be playing on that Network
these are UDP port ranges that he uses
under advanced we have allow the windows
deployment services to dynamically
discover domain servers and we'll just
really have one in this example we don't
need to specify a specific domain
controller that it's going to use and
we're not going to use rdp I think
authorization as well I'll when you
deploy workstations and send all those
files over the network uses a multicast
address and this is the address that is
going to use by default and you can
change that if you want to in case you
have other multicast traffic on your
network you need to change it to the
multicast nthg these are the options
that we had set during the wizard and so
the only thing I change in here as quick
review is underneath to fix your
response tab i add a two-second delay
and then under the boot option i said
always continue with the pixi boot and
we're going to be coming back to this
option I kind of skipped over a
trajectory domain services this or we
can change the format of the name so
when we image our computers
it's going to use right now the user
name of the administrator account
because that's where we're going to
login as on our boot image when we go to
image our windows workstation we don't
want to do that so we're going to do is
is we're going to want it look at what
we can put in there we click on how to
specify this format and here you can see
they give an example of how weekend name
instrumental just the first name of the
first five characters p % 5 first-person
five last and i'll just take the last
five or $TIME % 5 username will just
take the first five letters of the
username and use the mac address you use
percent mac or the computer name
includes incremental number containing
and digits so we're going to use this
option right here this is nice so we're
going to use a three-digit formats
during the zeros are 1 through 99 so i'm
going to use this format right here
copy that and we're going to change this
to read workstation and then we're going
to paste in the % 3 so will be
workstation 001 would be the very first
workstation we're going to be using
and it will add these workstation it
will join them to the domain in the same
domain as the WDS server and we can
choose a specific location within the
domain so if we have a new folder called
are a new organization unit and are
active directory called workstations
then we could add it to that but instead
it will just go to the default computers
oh you that makes sense just a double
check i'll just give you a quick browse
here so by default it's going to go into
the computers
oh you and we can change that into
different you if you want to
so it's going to go to advanced net-net
domain in the computers are you
that's the same as if we just chose this
option right here so either one of these
would work i'll leave it here just you
can physically see what all you will be
put in it okay and now we're going to be
taking a look at our own images and
we're going to create a new image we're
going to do that by right-clicking on
our boot image so good under boot images
and we're going to right-click on this
boot image and we get an option to
create a capture image
what this will do is it will create an
image to capture the files off the hard
drive was right now the normal boot
image we have there is just a boot up to
windows install options so we wanted to
we are going to create a capture image
that will capture and already configured
windows computer and that's where we
give it an image name so we're going to
go capture windows seven master
ok and then we're going to put this
scenario mode install boot images so
we're going to browse and should be on
our computer see dr remote install and
we're going to put this actually under
boot and we're going to call this our
wind seven capture open so it's going to
create this boot image and storage here
on RC drive and call it
win7 capture
yeah
and then your next
and i will let this finish up and i'll
do another according to the next step