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Yusuf Tran 's List: Windows 7 image rollout
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Jan 24, 11
Create universal image as vm and include driver packs
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Persisting Plug and Play Device Drivers During generalize
You can persist device drivers when you run the sysprep command with the /generalize option by specifying the PersistentAllDeviceInstalls setting in the Microsoft-Windows-PnPSysprep component. During the specialize configuration pass, Plug and Play scans the computer for devices and installs device drivers for the detected devices. By default, these device drivers are removed from the system when you generalize the system. If you set PersistAllDeviceInstalls to true in an answer file, Sysprep will not remove the detected device drivers. For more information, see the Unattended Windows Setup Reference (Unattend.chm).
Inside the answer file sysprep.xml (example: Windows 7 x86 Professional):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="generalize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>
<DoNotCleanUpNonPresentDevices>true</DoNotCleanUpNonPresentDevices>
</component>
</settings>
I hope that will help you!
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Just one final hint : Windows 7 features Aero... But to activate Aero, your computer needs to calculate it's performance score. Do you want to do that on each and every machine ? No, well, if all machines have the same hardware, run this before syspreping your master-image :
winsat prepopThis will calculate the performance index and put it on your machine in xml-format. If the OOBE wizard finds these xml file, and the hardware hasn't changed, it uses the pre-populate values and Aero works out of the box ! Enjoy !
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- Take a look at this article at MS Support : How to customize default user profiles in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. It explains the CopyProfile switch that you should use to change the default user profile for new users. In fact, I did all customisations (start menu, icons, desktop, settings for IE etc...) to the master image with the local admin user (you have to enable it manually) and then used the CopyProfile switch to copy all settings to the default user profile. This brings us to the next remark...
- As Todd and Tim pointed out in their comments, the reg-hack apparently needs to be added using the local admin account. As I did all customisations using the local admin, this might very well be true.
- The sysprep file offered for download in this articles is for 32bit installations only. Users installing the 64bit version of Windows 7 will need to change all instances of processorArchitecture="x86" to processorArchitecture="amd64".
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