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Cant get the $oem$ folders to copy to where I want it.
I'm trying to design a Win 10 (x64 pro) autoinstallation setup using Windows System Image Manager and answer files so I can save some time at work. I've only just recently started with it but I'm beginning to learn, thanks in part due to the tutorials on this website.
My goal is to setup a self-contained Win10 install that runs from a USB, make partitions without any(little) user input and contains one main account, has custom background, custom User Logo, several installed third-party applications, custom Start-menu Tiles, custom start-page for webbrowsers, custom energy settings and more of the same. I've done the whole capture image into a custom install.wim but I can't get it to work as I wish and I'd rather keep at it with Autounattend.xml only.
I've successfully experimented with, and implemented, several of the above mentioned "to-do"-list items. But so far what I've not been able to do despite browsing soooooo many online articles/tutorials that my eyes bleed is the whole $oem$ folder/configuration share/configuration set in working order.
Here is what I do (when I fail):
I have a folder full of third-party programs (java, adobe-reader, vlc-player, chrome etc) and backgrounds/images that I want automatically copied into the "c:\users\public\documents" folder of the destination-PC. I use Windows SIM to create a "Distribution Share"(Dist Share in short) folder on my tech-PC. Three folders are created including the "$OEM$ Folders". (Let's say it's on "c:\dist share\$OEM$ Folders" for simplicity's sake.)
As I've understood it, in order for the automation process to copy these files to the respective folders on the destination-PC I have to create a folder structure inside $oem$folders to match. So in this case I've made the following folder structure in my distribution share: "c:\dist share\$OEM$ Folders\$1\users\public\documents". If I'd wanted to create a new folder instead I would have used "c:\dist share\$OEM$ Folders\$1\testfolder".
I then create a configuration set: I select the target folder, which in this case is my Win10 USB drive: "d:\sources" and then I select the source: "c:\dist share"
The files should then be copied into "C:\Users\Public\Documents" on the Destination-PC as I've understood it from all my previous perusing of tutorials on the web. The problem is they dont. Instead they are copied, along with the entire USB-media, into "c:\windows\configsetroot". Meaning full path is instead "c:\windows\configsetroot\sources\$OEM$ Folders\$1\users\public\documents" on the Destination-PC.
I'm obviously missing something here. It does this every time I run this installation on a VMWare Virtual Machine. It's probably something simple I overlooked but not knowing makes me wanna chew my own foot off. I would apreciate any help in this matter.