[mdt] I wan to capture image of an HP Mini

[winng]

I have an HP Mini from a local school which I want to capture an image from in order to deploy that same image to 30 HP Mini's from our own stock as we are providing them to the local school.

 

I'm using the same deployment share that holds the 32-bit drivers and OS which were originally deployed to our HP Mini's.

 

I've created a Task Sequence to allegedly capture the image.

 

I've run the LiteTouch.vbs script on the HP Mini I wish to capture however, although I can see it has created files in the Control folder, it doesn't appear to create a .WIM file anywhere.

 

I've been trawling EduGeek and Spiceworks and reading various "how-to's" but I still don't get it....

 

Where do I go from here please?

[Guest obsidianpillar]

It should be in "Captures" unless you specified an alternative location when executing your task sequence it should be "something".wim if it's captured successfully.

[winng]

It should be in "Captures" unless you specified an alternative location when executing your task sequence it should be "something".wim if it's captured successfully.

 

It didn't give me an option to specify where the .wim should go and it's not in Captures?

[Guest obsidianpillar]

Can you post a copy of your "CustomSettings.ini" file so we can see what's going on there? When I capture an image, I normally revert to the default rules which work fine with capture.

[ITJS2015]

If you do not have a ethernet adapter buy a usb to ethernet and boot to wds which would make it easier for yourself

[Davit2005]

There are 2 capture folders I think, One for Builds and the other in deployment or at least in the MDT setups I have seen. Have you checked both??

 

I know MDT wizard can be very customizable but our gives us an option to set a capture image name at least. What type of task sequence did you create??

[winng]

Can you post a copy of your "CustomSettings.ini" file so we can see what's going on there? When I capture an image, I normally revert to the default rules which work fine with capture.

 

[settings]

Priority=Default

Properties=MyCustomProperty

 

[Default]

OSInstall=Y

SkipCapture=YES

SkipAdminPassword=YES

SkipProductKey=YES

SkipComputerBackup=YES

SkipBitLocker=YES

 

Applications001={8e7fa271-8cd0-4c50-8dec-e6eae0eaf7b1}

Applications002={a66c0f3e-a3f8-494b-b7c1-16d98356dbd3}

Applications003={781bbe73-abd1-4ff0-a178-527e8b557967}

Applications004={fd0b2b51-117b-492d-b168-1642a0260b49}

Applications005={f4db777d-f123-4e27-acee-df6a35123c51}

Applications006={2358353a-f73d-4267-bd40-201d04478766}

 

SkipLocaleSelection=YES

KeyboardLocale=0809:00000809

UserLocale=en-GB

UILanguage=en-GB

SkipTimeZone=YES

TimeZoneName=GMT Standard Time

SkipBitLocker=YES

SkipSummary=YES

SkipFinalSummary=YES[settings]

Priority=Default

Properties=MyCustomProperty

 

Okay, so I guess SkipCapture=YES should be changed to =NO?

[winng]

If you do not have a ethernet adapter buy a usb to ethernet and boot to wds which would make it easier for yourself

 

It's got an ethernet port so it's connected to the network.

[Guest obsidianpillar]

[settings]

Priority=Default

Properties=MyCustomProperty

 

[Default]

OSInstall=Y

SkipCapture=YES

SkipAdminPassword=YES

SkipProductKey=YES

SkipComputerBackup=YES

SkipBitLocker=YES

 

Applications001={8e7fa271-8cd0-4c50-8dec-e6eae0eaf7b1}

Applications002={a66c0f3e-a3f8-494b-b7c1-16d98356dbd3}

Applications003={781bbe73-abd1-4ff0-a178-527e8b557967}

Applications004={fd0b2b51-117b-492d-b168-1642a0260b49}

Applications005={f4db777d-f123-4e27-acee-df6a35123c51}

Applications006={2358353a-f73d-4267-bd40-201d04478766}

 

SkipLocaleSelection=YES

KeyboardLocale=0809:00000809

UserLocale=en-GB

UILanguage=en-GB

SkipTimeZone=YES

TimeZoneName=GMT Standard Time

SkipBitLocker=YES

SkipSummary=YES

SkipFinalSummary=YES[settings]

Priority=Default

Properties=MyCustomProperty

 

Okay, so I guess SkipCapture=YES should be changed to =NO?

 

 

Correct, it then should give you an option to capture.

 

Alternatively, make a backup of your current CustomSettings.ini and replace with the following:

 

***********************************

[settings]

Priority=Default

Properties=MyCustomProperty

 

[Default]

OSInstall=Y

SkipCapture=NO

SkipAdminPassword=NO

SkipProductKey=NO

SkipComputerBackup=NO

SkipBitlocker=NO

********************************

 

^

Using the above will allow you to specify within the Wizard what and where to store the capture. This should hopefully allow you to capture an image, along with customising a few other different options. If you are using KMS, do not enter in the key in the "product key" option, just leave it blank or skip it. When you connect the computer to the network it is being used on (the endpoint machine), the machine will automatically activate against a KMS Server if DNS is working properly and has the minimum activation threshold (25 clients for Windows).

 

 

Hope this helps. Any other problems, feel free to reply.

 

Tom