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Modifying the hidden Recovery folder?
I work in IT for a higher learning institution. We deploy out about 210 laptops a year to students who lease the laptops and end up purchasing them after graduation. This creates some headaches.. To make a long story short, the laptops are basically the modified OEM image (I get the install media from the manufacturer and I boot into audit mode, make some changes, add some scripts, reseal and deploy).
In Win 8/8.1 I was able to also modify the recovery/reset partition by overwriting the wim image with my own captured image.
In Windows 10 the push-button reset doesn't seem to work this way. I researched some of my options and it looks like a 3rd party partition backup or setting up a provisioning package with ADT were my only real options.
However, I did some digging and managed to find a way of overwriting the unattend.xml file and adding my own startup scripts by adding some files to the hidden C:\Recovery\OEM folder. This SEEMS to work exactly like I want it to. The computer does its reset process and when it boots it uses my unattend.xml and runs my configuration scripts.
My question is... Is this an acceptable method? I seem to be coming up dry looking for official MS documentation stating one way or the other.