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Thats working as intended, when you do a sysprep generalize you are essentially removing all profiles, security information and drivers. Sysprep is used when you want to create a base install image that will support multiple machines that you are going to image from that base install. If you want to use an unattended file for specific users thats possible too. Why are you wanting to use sysprep for in the first place?

Keep In mind you might have audio problems with the realtek drivers. I had to roll back to the native driver just so the sound would stay on. None of the guides I saw online worked. The rollback was the only thing that worked.

http://www.msfn.org/...ost__p__1009846 That mediabootinstall command is that how you get an upgrade on install with a totally blank drive with an upgrade key? I was needing to know this because I will be changing out my main HD for a SSD so keeping the amount of writes down on the drive helps me a ton. I just need to know what the exact syntax for this needs to be because the forum always butchers it.

Unfortunately these are standalone workstations that are not going to be on AD so using GPO is not an option. The issue is the certs is needed for the wifi only.

Any guides on that? This is something I been wanting to do for a while now.

I posted this on neowin but got no answer. I thought I might try here since there are more people who know more about MDT on this site. I am needing assistance with 2 things for newly deployed systems. One is for windows 7 and the other is for windows 8. For the first issue I wanted to know how can you update the trusted root certificates in a wim file? We recently had a change to our wifi network and the add trust cert is not there by default. So I want to ensure that it is from now on for all future installs. My second issue is with windows 8 and MDT 2012. The files for our MDT share are located on a NAS server. In windows 8 there was something done to the security which prevents you from connecting to the NAS server unless I run this command from power shell. Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $true from powershell, Once I do that it can connect just fine. The problem is if I am doing a new deployment from scratch the install goes ok until first bootup. At that point unless I do that command the rest of the deployment can not proceed. So what I am requesting is a way to turn that security setting off in deployment or have a way that it will run at first bootup using the task sequence.

Actually order does matter for some updates. I have tried to make on numerous occassions to make a fully updated usb key but I had to install certain updates at the end. Some of them have pre-reqs for those updates.

From what I can tell its suppose to transfer the customizations from the admin profile to all future profiles. I am not sure why it is not working for you. One thing I do not do though is install in audit mode. I just use another answer file that makes the admin account, install what I need and then run sysprep from there not in audit mode. I cant see why audit mode would not work though.

I am going to try to use this tool to make a drivers only usb key for some of my non-network installs. Here is the issue. I downloaded the WDK thing but the documentation is very poor for this. They do not tell you exactly how to do this. I thought the documentation on the WAIK was bad but this is just horrible. The little bit I could figure out was from other websites similar to msfn. The basics in which I got is I put dpinst.exe in the root folder and have sub directories which it will check for drivers and such. What I want to do is have a bit of control with it. With no xml file it just installs whats in the same directory as the installer and no sub directories. How am I going to create the xml file to configure the options? Its not like with the wsim where it writes it for you. I am horrible at coding so trying to do something like this by hand will take years to do and debug. Can this be configured to give the user the option to pick only which driver category you want installed at a time. Like say audio only this time but on the next machine I want network and the next all drivers? Lastly if I am just missing something on this let me know because I am totally lost on how this thing is configured.

Not sure what reboot pro has to do with this, I am talking about just regular windows installations. Its alot easier to update boot.wim than it is to update install.wim. One image versus doing 4+ depending on the disc. I have tried the $drivers$ thing or whatever the sentax is, it does not always work well where as with dism you know right away if drivers are going to work or not. I just need to know the expected behavior of how windows handles the drivers from install to post install.

I just wanted to ask if anyone does this. What I wanted to do is inject the drivers there in hopes that the boot.wim file will pass on the needed drivers to the windows install so that after first logon a machine has everything it needs. If this is the case will it pass on what is needed or will it do everything?

All of it can be done on auto in audit mode. I have recently been working on this for the past few months on vista to make a disc that does it all. Just slipstream updates(some may need to be done in a certain order), autoinstall those that cant be slipstream like the .net stuff. Then any apps or reg tweaks. It works extremely well.

Why not just install it all in audit mode? I recently just figured it out. I hated the setup complete for the same reason as you do plus it took forever and a day to get some kind of progress bar. To me firstlogoncommands works better and looks better and you can reboot as needed. Small edit: for .net stuff I use /passive instead of quiet so I can at least see its progress.

Small update. I found out there was nothing wrong with the install switch. Its something with the file I downloaded. A few users have reported that occasionally adobe breaks the silent installer on the shockwave when they upload the wrong file. The one I was using has a google toolbar that wants to install but after a few days they put the right file in the download section. Now it installs correctly since it does not have the crapware included. My only issue now is getting some windows updates that refuse to integrate to run with firstlogoncommands in vista. My gut feeling is telling me those 2 updates can be slipstreamed but I just need to find the right order to do them in. One of them is kb2522422.Any luck with getting that to slipstream?

You can post a link if the file is on an Adobe or Macromedia URL. <URL REMOVED> Its either of the first 3 files. I have tried them all and various install switches. Each time it causes my firstlogoncommands to not execute correctly. Its like its causing the sysprep phase not to close properly. Either way I know its not installing because I get a red x during the normal firstlogoncommands. Would try to post screen shots but it happens way too fast to capture the error message.

Latest player that can be downloaded. I know its an exe file not an msi. I would post the link but I am not sure if its permitted.

Specifically looking for one for the shockwave player. I tried doing what I saw online but it never executes properly during the firstlogoncommands in my xml file. I am just trying to make sure there isnt some kind of trick to getting this to work with firstlogoncommands or setupcomplete.

Just a follow and resolution to this thread. My problem grew to not being able to slipstream all updates. This was due to changes in the companies anti-virus settings. It was blocking me from integrating any kind of update no matter what OS. So basically I just need a way around this now. I started a new thread since its a new problem.

I been fighting with trying to integrate updates into vista for almost a month now. I kept getting error 5 access denied. I been trying all kinds of resetting of permissions and such with no luck. Come to find out its the freaking anti-virus my organization uses that is blocking me from updating the media. The problem I have now is the way the policy is set you cant disable the anti-virus more than 5 minutes. Now I need another way to do this from the same machine without the AV blocking me.

Well thats because I am getting the error 5, I usually just cancel the slipstream and discard the changes. Thats why you might see repeated entries of that specific kb number because I am trying different things but its using the same log file name. I am not sure if it was a hotfix or not. All I know is I wrote down all the needed patches from a sp2 install after running windows update several times and thats how I get which ones to install.

Ok let me know if you cant read it. slipstream.txt

I am not sure whats going on with my machine. I keep getting an error 5 everytime I try to slipstream updates. Googling this it seems like an access denied error. But I have full control over the folder and I am running the command prompt as administrator. The machine I am on is on a domain, I am not sure if thats relevant or not because our IS department is constantly changing security policies and such. I am using a batch file that used to work sometime last week but now it just does not for some reason. I did a file system check to see if my hard drive where I work on this is corrupt but everything checked out fine. Here is the code. I cant make heads or tails out of the log file in terms of what the error actually is from. for %g in (c:\cabs\*.cab) do dism /image:c:\mount /add-package /packagepath:%g /logpath:c:\wim2\slipstream.log

Still no text when I do this. Its starting to be more trouble than its worth at this point. I dont see why microsoft does not create reliable documentation on how to do this. Its like everytime they come out with a tool or something to help developers they half a** do it by either not putting a gui on it or make it too restrictive to the point where it just does not help at all. I would have loved to be able to use the first login commands for this but I could never get it working after at least 50 attempts on a 64-bit install.

There are some patches that have to go in before ie9 otherwise it does not really slipstream. At least thats how it is with the waik, not sure about vlite.

Not what it runs on but what it can service. I know it cant do anything xp since xp has no wim files. I am talking about the wim files it can service.