Building a Common Image with Microsoft Windows 7 on HP Pro and Elite Desktop PCs 2012 Commercial Managed IT Models - Techical White Paper

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Building a common image

Instructions are provided for building Windows 7 Professional images.

Windows 7 Professional

1. Install Windows 7 Professional on a supported platform.

2. Copy all device drivers to the %SystemDrive%\DRV folder.

3. Run Windows System Image Manager to create the sysprep.xml file.

4. As shown in Figure 2, make the following changes to the sysprep.xml file:

– In the Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE component –

Set the PnP driver search path.

– In the Microsoft-Windows-Deployment component –

Following the pass=”auditUser” phase, set Reseal in OOBE mode.

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Figure 2 does not show the complete sysprep.xml file.