Unjoin/Join AD Automatically - Windows 10

[jleonv]

Hi Forum,

I was looking to capture a master W10 image which is in AD environment. Is possible to create the image with the computer inside the AD or I need to unjoin->create the image?

I’m looking for an automated task/script.

Regards!

[george1421]

@jleonv There are a couple of things here.

1. I would build a golden image outside of AD. You should be able to install almost all of the software as a standalone machine. As soon as you attach the golden image to AD, it will become tattooed with AD stuff. Its best to do that post deployment either by using fog or a unatted.xml script.
2. Build your golden image on a VM and use snapshots to back out changes if they mess up the golden image. You will thank me later.
3. Use the windows lite touch method of windows deployment and use an unattend.xml file to answer all of the common OOBE questions.
4. Use Microsoft MDT to build your golden image.

FOG is a block level imaging tool. It moves disk blocks from here to there very quickly. The down side is that FOG is not very dynamic when it comes to install time decisions.

MDT is a file level imaging tool. The advantage is install time changes can be made on the target computer, the down side is that it is slower to image than FOG.