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Customised Windows 10 deployment on multiple desktops and laptops.
Hey guys,
As mentioned in my introduction I have questions, so here it goes.
Firstly I'll describe my scenario and what I intend to do.
I work for a small organisation (50 employees) which in the near future will extend to nearly 75. In this process we will change our office and get brand new desktops, laptops and some servers (used for various applications). We are due to receive around 25 new devices (laptops and desktops) on which I'll need to install Windows 10 plus the software we use.
While browsing the forum I bumped into Kari's (I bow before you good sir) tutorial which might do the trick.
So the plan is:
- start the installation on a reference computer.
- lunch audit mode and install all software, updates (will this create any issues ? 1607 in particularly)
- answer file and sysprep (all machines will be joined to a domain, can I do this here ? I guess there is no point in creating a custom default profile since people will be logging in via the domain account)
- find a way to image this build.
More questions:
Now, we do have a copy of Windows 10 Pro which has the install.esd file. Will this create any issues along the way ? I know you can convert it into a wim file, but after I created the answer file I need to convert it back into a esd ?
I my mind I see this image created, then stored on a shared storage and once I have all devices ready to install I just boot with WinPE and start the install from the image.
I did had problems finding a WinPE with Macrium Reflect on it (the one I found I couldn't boot from it due to secure boot in UEFI and after disabling it was prompted with wrong windows error or something of this kind (maybe I've downloaded some crap).
The work laptop I'm using is a Lenovo Yoga 12 so I don't know if that would be powerful enough to use virtual machines, but I do have a spare Lenovo E530 I5 and a E330 that I can practice on.
I aim on creating this customised image as it will help me save some time in the future when we aim to bring all the devices in our organisation to Win10.
Hope that covers everything that I intend to do and hopefully you understand something in this madness.
Am I on the right course ?
Do you think I should do it differently ?
I know there is a way to deploy all this via a server, but I don't know Server 2016 yet so I'll give that a miss I guess.
I apologise as it doesn't have a good structure, I'm rushing to close my shift.
Many thanks for your time in reading this "thing".
Cheers,
Sico