Asgard Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) Hi All We are thinking that our eager new apprentice is chomping at the bit to be given a project to start working on, so we had the thought of setting up the basis of a document for Creating a Gold Image for Windows 10 - which he will collate and then myself and the senior team will create, test and document. With the idea that we are going to share it with the world as an outline guide for people who follow deploying Win10. So, cap in hand I am wondering if anyone would be willing to share some of their tips and tricks on what they have done with their Windows 10 Golden Image (if they have gone down that route)... that we can add to our own current development Win10 documentation/image. Any tips you would impart if you were to create your Win10 image again, i.e getting rid of the inbuilt games/store/apps Ideally we are going to replicate our Win7 setup which is a mandatory profile setup Win10 x64 Enterprise Office 2016 Cheers John Paul Edited February 15, 2016 by Asgard
FragglePete Posted February 16, 2016 Posted February 16, 2016 I'll read with interest - I'm currently setting up a new WDS server with MDT in preparation for Windows 10. I've installed the new MDT 2013 Update 1 but having problems with it (gets stuck on 'processing rules') - seems to be a common issue and a lot of issues with MDT 2013 Update 1. Hoping to get it working in the next day or two. Pete
Arthur Posted February 16, 2016 Posted February 16, 2016 I've installed the new MDT 2013 Update 1 but having problems with it (gets stuck on 'processing rules') - seems to be a common issue and a lot of issues with MDT 2013 Update 1. You should try MDT 2013 Update 2. Update 1 was really buggy. 2
FragglePete Posted February 16, 2016 Posted February 16, 2016 You should try MDT 2013 Update 2. Update 1 was really buggy. Ahh! Now why didn't I see that when I was setting this up! FFS !! Take a 'Thanks' Arthur!
gshaw Posted February 16, 2016 Posted February 16, 2016 (edited) MDT has been working well for us so far, also running Update 2. No Gold image for us with 10, building straight from the install media as number of updates are fairly minimal and likely to remain that way as we can just update the source as new builds are released. Edited February 16, 2016 by gshaw
FragglePete Posted February 16, 2016 Posted February 16, 2016 Got a step forward this morning. Was still locking on Rules Processing part, but I've completely cleared that out and it appears to be working. Need to work through that again and see what caused the issue. Small steps. Pete
juls Posted February 16, 2016 Posted February 16, 2016 All issues I've had so far have been with the built in apps. Booting into audit mode after installation is how I am currently bypassing any updates being applied. As soon as I boot into the computer I run the powershell cmds below to remove all apps first thing. Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online I've also been having trouble reducing the size of the default user profile seeing that mklinks from the appdata no longer work through sysprep. 1
mattpant Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 I'd be interested to read your findings - particularly in the way you get the Mandatory Profiles to work successfully for multiple users accessing the same machines and the logon speeds... Any Registry Tweaks you may need to do and removal of built in apps to help speed logons
timbo343 Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 Got a step forward this morning. Was still locking on Rules Processing part, but I've completely cleared that out and it appears to be working. Need to work through that again and see what caused the issue. Small steps. Pete Pete, have a look at this thread. Ive just started using WDS and MDT and its working great according to the links ive provided. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/165836-windows-10-create-gold-image-problems-sysprep.html Ill have to apply Update 2, didnt find update 1 too bad. 1
timbo343 Posted February 17, 2016 Posted February 17, 2016 Hi All We are thinking that our eager new apprentice is chomping at the bit to be given a project to start working on, so we had the thought of setting up the basis of a document for Creating a Gold Image for Windows 10 - which he will collate and then myself and the senior team will create, test and document. With the idea that we are going to share it with the world as an outline guide for people who follow deploying Win10. So, cap in hand I am wondering if anyone would be willing to share some of their tips and tricks on what they have done with their Windows 10 Golden Image (if they have gone down that route)... that we can add to our own current development Win10 documentation/image. Any tips you would impart if you were to create your Win10 image again, i.e getting rid of the inbuilt games/store/apps Ideally we are going to replicate our Win7 setup which is a mandatory profile setup Win10 x64 Enterprise Office 2016 Cheers John Paul John, there is some discussion about which version of Win10 we should be using. I have opted for Enterprise LTSB over education. The Enterprise version doesnt have games or the apps which come on education. Also edge and cortana are missing on enterprise. Have a look at classic shell for the start menu, its great and will give your apprentice something to configure coupled with group policies you can really clean it up. Have a look at local group policies first to get an idea of what can be configured before configuring the domain group policies. Im in the process of removing some of the menus in explorer via rwg hacks and tenforums.com.can be a real help. 2
MYK-IT Posted March 3, 2016 Posted March 3, 2016 Will be following this thread with interest too... Not had proper opportunity to test Windows 10 / deployment as yet, although looking at using the MDT 2013 method (following Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 6: Deploying Windows 10 Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit: Amazon.co.uk: Johan Arwidmark, Mikael Nyström: 9789187445217: Books) Microsoft have recently released a free eBook (using System Centre) Free ebook: Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager
timbo343 Posted March 3, 2016 Posted March 3, 2016 Will be following this thread with interest too... Not had proper opportunity to test Windows 10 / deployment as yet, although looking at using the MDT 2013 method (following Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 6: Deploying Windows 10 Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit: Amazon.co.uk: Johan Arwidmark, Mikael Nyström: 9789187445217: Books) Microsoft have recently released a free eBook (using System Centre) Free ebook: Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager WE followed this for deployment for Windows 10 after coming from Ghost for 14 years. Capturing Windows 7 image using MDT 2013 Deploy custom windows 7 image using MDT 2013
Asgard Posted May 23, 2016 Author Posted May 23, 2016 (edited) Ok, so a little update.. We have our Gold Image's (one on v1511 Enterprise and the other on V1511 Enterprise LTSB) pretty much down to a fine art and deployment via MDT 2013 update 2 seems to be pretty flawless. We have a word doc based on Win10 Enterprise / LTSB v1511 which documents installing the OS , removing the 'sillyness' and making some tweaks to the default user (due to booting the machine into Audit Mode) - Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 10 Forums Happy to share the word doc we have compiled if anyone wants it. Current Status We have created a mandatory profile and uploaded it to our profile share, but when any user logs in they cant click the start menu, the taskbar doesn't work and 3 white icons have appeared on the desktop and no desktop/taskbar shortcuts open. I'm wondering if its to do with 'copyprofile=true' when using audit mode, but even copying the default profile upto the profile share still results in the same. Hopefully we will crack this mandatory profile issue soon. Edited May 23, 2016 by Asgard
Blue_Cookeh Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Ok, so a little update.. We have our Gold Image's (one on v1511 Enterprise and the other on V1511 Enterprise LTSB) pretty much down to a fine art and deployment via MDT 2013 update 2 seems to be pretty flawless. We have a word doc based on Win10 Enterprise / LTSB v1511 which documents installing the OS , removing the 'sillyness' and making some tweaks to the default user (due to booting the machine into Audit Mode) - Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 10 Forums Happy to share the word doc we have compiled if anyone wants it. Current Status We have created a mandatory profile and uploaded it to our profile share, but when any user logs in they cant click the start menu, the taskbar doesn't work and 3 white icons have appeared on the desktop and no desktop/taskbar shortcuts open. I'm wondering if its to do with 'copyprofile=true' when using audit mode, but even copying the default profile upto the profile share still results in the same. Hopefully we will crack this mandatory profile issue soon. Those are permissions issues with your mandatory profile, have a look at the file/folder/registry permissions. 1
mattpant Posted May 24, 2016 Posted May 24, 2016 Hi @jszkudlapski I would love to get a copy of your Word Doc to have a look over. Many Thanks Matt
timbo343 Posted May 24, 2016 Posted May 24, 2016 Ok, so a little update.. We have our Gold Image's (one on v1511 Enterprise and the other on V1511 Enterprise LTSB) pretty much down to a fine art and deployment via MDT 2013 update 2 seems to be pretty flawless. We have a word doc based on Win10 Enterprise / LTSB v1511 which documents installing the OS , removing the 'sillyness' and making some tweaks to the default user (due to booting the machine into Audit Mode) - Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 10 Forums Happy to share the word doc we have compiled if anyone wants it. Current Status We have created a mandatory profile and uploaded it to our profile share, but when any user logs in they cant click the start menu, the taskbar doesn't work and 3 white icons have appeared on the desktop and no desktop/taskbar shortcuts open. I'm wondering if its to do with 'copyprofile=true' when using audit mode, but even copying the default profile upto the profile share still results in the same. Hopefully we will crack this mandatory profile issue soon. Thats sounds to me like the tiledatalayer is broken 1
Asgard Posted May 24, 2016 Author Posted May 24, 2016 Hi @jszkudlapski I would love to get a copy of your Word Doc to have a look over. Many Thanks Matt Sir will have an email in about 10 mins. 1
colacao82 Posted May 25, 2016 Posted May 25, 2016 Thanks for doing this! Very good work. I would also like a copy of the word doc to browse. Thanks. 1
Iain.Faulkner Posted May 25, 2016 Posted May 25, 2016 Hi, I'd like to see your word document if that's possible :-) Thank you :-) 1
MYK-IT Posted May 25, 2016 Posted May 25, 2016 I'd appreciate the documented guide too! In fact, is there, or should there be a dedicated Windows 10 (Deployment) Post / Wiki on here? That could cover all aspects from configuration (WIM, MDT, WDS, SC etc), tweaks (GPO, Registry etc.) to Deployment? As although posts like this (and others) are proving very beneficial and informative for those currently (or provisioning) testing / planning for Windows 10 Deployment it's sometimes difficult to keep up to date! I know there is a search button; and a Windows 10 section etc. but perhaps something as simple as a new (sticky) post which cross-references each stage of (pre)configuration and deployment? (Thanks to all those who have posted, or contributed to (any) Windows 10 deployment related posts BTW, proving very helpful, and much appreciated:thumb:) 1
Asgard Posted May 25, 2016 Author Posted May 25, 2016 I'd appreciate the documented guide too! In fact, is there, or should there be a dedicated Windows 10 (Deployment) Post / Wiki on here? That could cover all aspects from configuration (WIM, MDT, WDS, SC etc), tweaks (GPO, Registry etc.) to Deployment? As although posts like this (and others) are proving very beneficial and informative for those currently (or provisioning) testing / planning for Windows 10 Deployment it's sometimes difficult to keep up to date! I know there is a search button; and a Windows 10 section etc. but perhaps something as simple as a new (sticky) post which cross-references each stage of (pre)configuration and deployment? (Thanks to all those who have posted, or contributed to (any) Windows 10 deployment related posts BTW, proving very helpful, and much appreciated:thumb:) We have documented our new MDT 2013 Update 2 server too and the steps for capturing the image - ill share that when its ready anyone that wants a copy of the document, just drop me a PM with your email address and it shall be made so. Just don't ask me about Mandatory profiles yet because I'm still having a little fight with them, if anyone wants to steer me in the right direction for Financial compensation that would be great hahaha 2
Asgard Posted May 25, 2016 Author Posted May 25, 2016 Those are permissions issues with your mandatory profile, have a look at the file/folder/registry permissions. Thats sounds to me like the tiledatalayer is broken It appears that you guys are some sort of wizards. If you would like to impart the knowledge of the ages I am sure that a financial compensation can be agreed upon
Asgard Posted May 25, 2016 Author Posted May 25, 2016 @mattpant what are your initial impressions of the doc squire.
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