Customize Windows 10 Image in Audit Mode with Sysprep  

SmileyPK said:

WHOA WHOA WHOA there, buddy! Let's try to keep wrong information to a minimum, mmkay?

I use CopyProfile with local user accounts and domain user accounts every day.

The default profile is the default profile. There is no such thing as a "default profile for domain accounts."

There is one default profile for all users, whether local users or domain users.

It sounds like your image is misconfigured. Please post your configuration so that I can help see where you went wrong. Thx!!!

Good to get an expert opinion Taken out of context anything can be claimed to be wrong. The context of that statement of mine you quoted would have become clearer if you had also quoted the first sentence of the same post:

Kari said:

A domain administrator sets up your domain account. He / she can even direct you to use a different profile.

In domain environment an admin can for instance redirect user profiles to server. That effectively overwrites the visual customizations made by user.

That being said, this tutorial is like Ten Forums in general for private users. The tutorial's purpose is to show how to customize a Windows install image to be used in a workgroup (no domain) environment.

Kari

RockyC said:

I am using the CopyProfile option to retain the customized OEM information, but I noticed that this has the effect of also copying the install.wim file from the desktop to the new user account. Is there a way to prevent this?

Hi rocky, welcome to Ten Forums.

This note is from beginning of Part Six of tutorial:

   Note

Please read before proceeding:

Sysprepping with the Generalize switch and CopyProfile=TRUE has a small issue or rather a small inconvenience: it leaves the last used user folders (#1 in screenshot below) and recent files (#2) of built-in admin to end user's Quick Access:

A very simple and fast workaround is to add this batch file to built-in admin's %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder in Audit Mode before running Sysprep. Name it as you want to using the .bat extension, I named it RunOnce.bat:

Code:

echo Y | del %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\*
del %0

The batch file explained:

• echo Y | = Pipes (sends) a letter Y to the command given after the Pipe (|) character
• del %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\* = Resets the Quick Access to defaults. This command expects the user to enter either Y for Yes or N for No. As the Y will be in this case piped, user interaction is not needed but instead the Y will be entered automatically
• del %0 = Deletes the batch file itself after it has been run. Leaving this away, not deleting the batch file, would reset the Quick Access every time the user signs in

File is now saved in built-in admin's Startup folder, which will be copied among other customizations to Default User Profile when you sysprep with CopyProfile set TRUE using the /generalize switch.

Now whenever a new user account will be created, be it the initial user created in OOBE or any user created anytime later, the batch will be run once for each user resetting the Quick Access to defaults and then removing itself.

Other than this minor inconvenience I have not found any whatsoever issues in Audit Mode, Sysprep, generalizing and CopyProfile functions.

Kari