I also don’t want to use the USB drive to install the provided image, and then capture from there, because I’m under the impression if I did that, we wouldn’t get the benefits of having the already sysprepped machine.

I see. Thanks everyone for your help. For this customer, we’ll just use USB’s initially (since they told us yesterday they’d changed their deployment method and we need it by Friday…) and then see if we can work to a better long-term solution after that.

Thanks everyone!

@Tom-Elliott I guess I figured a sysprepped computer would know once it had been deployed and behave differently, if that’s not the case then placing the image on the system is probably the easiest solution.

@Wayne-Workman I don’t have the USB yet - just trying to determine if it’s viable at this stage. All I know is it’s an “Offline deployment USB media from MDT”.

@george1421 MDT does definitely have some post-install scripts to do. I believe the customer is scripting out the OOBE setup so it will go straight to the desktop.

I also don’t want to use the USB drive to install the provided image, and then capture from there, because I’m under the impression if I did that, we wouldn’t get the benefits of having the already sysprepped machine.

Hi,

A client would like to give us a USB containing an already-sysprepped offline deployment of Windows 7 from MDT, complete with unattend file.

Is it possible for me to copy the contents of that USB onto /images in our FOG server and then network-boot a lab from that image? The idea is that we’d pull the image down on each workstation, leaving them switched off, and then switch the lab to a dedicated VLAN with connection to their DC’s, enabling the workstations to auto-join their domain on first boot.

Note that I’m not talking about https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Bootable_Media - I don’t want to have a USB ISO for each workstation, I just want to use the contents of a USB to make a normal pxeboot image.

Thanks!