PC Imaging Process Windows 10 Install OS Install and run Windows Media Creation Tool from \\atlas\tech\Windows Choose “Create installation media” and then select USB Flash Drive. Download OS Update BIOS Boot Sequence to only “USB Storage Device”. Reboot Run initial Windows 10 Setup. Reboot. Update BIOS Boot Sequence to “Onboard NIC” and then local hard drive. Reboot PRE SYSPREP Go through the new PC setup, disable all consumer experience options and Cortana, set up as a personal PC so that we don’t join the domain yet. Set user to admin, password to moon$5light. Security answers to None, None, None. In Programs and Features, remove any unneeded programs such as OneDrive and Dell utilities. The only things we need at this point are drivers. Enable updates for other Microsoft Products in advanced update settings. Run Windows Updates. Install Chrome Enterprise from \\operations\PDQ\Google\Chrome Install Trend Micro from \\operations\Distribution\TrendMicro\ Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC from \\operations\PDQ\Adobe\Reader\DC\Continuous Install Dell Support Assist from \\operations\Distribution\Dell and run tool Run Windows Updates. Turn off fast startup in the power options, under “Choose what the power buttons do”. Run Win10AppRemoval.ps1 from \\atlas\tech\fogserver\Windows 10 to remove and deprovision all non-essential apps. Make local group policy changes on the computer to allow PDQ Deploy and Inventory to communicate with it. We have a domain GPO to enforce these settings as well, but the new PC deployment script often kicks off before the domain GPOs finish applying, which results in a deployment failure. The needed settings can be found at https://support.pdq.com/knowledge-base/1023 Copy the appropriate unattend.xml answers file for the OS from \\atlas\tech\fogserver\Windows 10 to C:\Windows\system32\sysprep. Will have to copy to “Documents” locally first. Copy the appropriate SetupComplete.cmd file from \\atlas\tech\fogserver\Windows 10 to C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts. The scripts directory will need to be created. You will have to copy locally first. Run Windows Updates. Take a pre-sysprep image of the machine POST SYSPREP Install the FOG client (FogService.msi) from \\atlas\tech\fogserver\Fog Service, point client to fogserver.morgan.k12.co.us In services.msc, set the FOG client’s startup type to disabled. It will be re-enabled by the SetupComplete.cmd script, but the machine will not be able to be set up after sysprepping if this isn’t disabled initially. Sysprep the computer with a command prompt running from C:\windows\system32\sysprep and the command sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:C:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml Power on the computer and capture a sysprepped image of the machine and redeploy the image to the computer to verify that it works correctly.