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Hello EDU Geeks, This is my first time posting on this blog and I hope my descriptions below would give you an idea on what I'm looking for... About our lab environment: I work at a school with over 200+ PC's that are being accessed by students 24/7. Each student access these PC's using their domain account. We use HP z820's, HP Z1, and HP Z440s all on Windows 10 EDU. These PC's are mainly used for Graphic Design such as 3D Modeling/Rendering and largely used for the Adobe CC Suite. What is needed: -An image with Windows 10 EDU that contains all software, plug-ins, add-ons, and apps used at our school. -Users would log-in using their Domain Account and upon log-off their profiles should delete to save space on the HDD. -Every user that logs-in, would have the same Desktop settings and content applied to (Mandatory Profile/Custom Profile). -The Mandatory Profile should be stored locally on the PC and not stored on our network (No roaming profiles). - What should be used to capture the image MDT or SCCM? What I have done so far: - I modified the Default User Profile with custom settings and policies so that when a student logs in, they all have the same desktop with the same shortcuts and applications. - I have deleted the Start Up Apps that Windows 10 installs using the "Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage cmdlet" in PowerShell (This was done to reduce log-on time). -I have set Group Policy to Delete Profiles over “X” amount of days but it does not seem To be efficient. If you guys can guide me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated Thanks EDU GEEKS!

I create my image in hyper v and I've successfully captured it in the past (last capture was of windows 1909). I usually just apply the updates then capture it. I use sccm to capture and deploy. I have ran the usual powershell scripts to remove windows store apps. Get-AppxPackage -AllUser | Where PublisherId -eq 8wekyb3d8bbwe | Format-List -Property PackageFullName,PackageUserInformation Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage I then mount my capture.iso and start the capture. It runs through the sysprep and the restarts the VM. It then starts up with the black screen and a grey progress bar at the bottom that says loading files... The progress bar loads across the bottom a couple of times and then the VM shuts down. If I start it up again the progress bar loads across a couple of times again and shuts down again. Have I forgotten to do something or is their a new step to capturing the image that I'm missing?

Hi, Using Server 2008R2 I have been unable to capture a Windows 7 Pro image- fails at 47% with message 'Access Denied' The Windows 7 image is set up and I have copied it both pre-sysprepped and sysprepped using Acronis. The source machine is an HP8200 i5 desktop with 4GB memory, the server is 2008r2 with 12GB memory The local drives used to capture were 80GB and 250GB SATA, connected to the same motherboard as the source drive. The capture fails at 47% whether saving direct to a local disk or to local disk + server. PXE boots up fine and using the wizard I go through the steps to capture- it then proceeds happily on its way until the message Access Denied comes up at 47%. This is a physical drive build not virtual, server permission is via a domain admin account. I have tried to capture 6 times and used three different hard drives as source, two as local target. Factors I've considered- Bad sectors?- probably not, 2 target and 3 sources drives used (re-imaged each time with the sysprepped image) Permissions?- server accessed via domain admin account, what about local drive should the wizard ask for an account, if so a local machine account? Uninstall file?- isn't this only brought into play on installation of a created image Something in the build?- what and how can it be tracked down- I can't see any obvious log file of how the image creation is going? Any suggestions would be much appreciated, it's driving me up the wall! Thanks