Building a Common Image

Now that you have captured and created a common image file and saved it

on a server, it can be used to image other PCs within a designated family.

Applying an ImageX image file is very similar to capturing one.

4. Use the WinPE based USB flash drive or CD and boot up the target PC

5. Map a drive to the server where the common image file is stored.

6. ImageX does not partition or format a drive when applying an image. If the

hard drive has not been partitioned and formatted, use the Microsoft DISKPART

utility to create the partition and run FORMAT from the command prompt to

format it.

7. Run ImageX with the following command line to apply an image to the PC:

Imagex.exe /apply z:\CommonImage.wim “commonImage” C:\

 Z:\CommonImage.wim—the mapped server location and image file

name being applied

 “commonImage”—the descriptive name of the image you want to

apply

 C:\ —the destination root directory of the applied image

After the image is successfully applied, at the WINPE command prompt enter,

WPEUTIL Reboot to reboot or WPEUTIL shutdown to shut down the PC.

Sample SYSPREP.xml (

unattend.xml

) Answer file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core"

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">

</component>

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup"

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">

<OOBE>

</OOBE>

<RegisteredOrganization>Bmankind</RegisteredOrganization>

<RegisteredOwner>Bmankind</RegisteredOwner>