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Capture an WES7 image for deployment with OSD

This post continues previous post you can find them here:

Building my first Windows Embedded Standard 7 image with the Image Builder Wizard (IBW)
Installing the Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1 Toolkit and Developer Update 1.1
Configuring Windows Embedded Standard 7 Image Configuration Editor (ICE)
Configuring the Windows Embedded Developer update 1.1
Creating an answer file with Image Configuration Editor (ICE)
Build a WES7 bootable media from an answerfile

If capturing an image for the purposes of deploying to a new device, you must run Sysprep /generalize, even if the device has the same hardware configuration. The Sysprep /generalize command removes unique information from your Standard 7 installation, which enables you to reuse that image on different devices. The next time you restart the Standard 7 image, the specialized configuration pass runs.

Log on to your installed WES7.

Go to C:\Windows\System32\sysprep, double-click on Sysprep

Select Generalize, set the shutdown options to Shutdown and click OK

Start your WES7 machine from the WES7 IBW DVD/ISO and select Launch WINPE Command Prompt

In the command prompt window map a drive to the computer where you installed the WES7 Toolkit.
Example: net use * \\mycomputer\images /USER:mydomain\user password

If needed map a drive to the location where you want to save the image.

Go to

And Run imagex
Example: imagex /capture C: Z:\mydevice.wim "Drive C" /verify

The image capture starts:

When the capture is finished, check to see if the image is there.

Now we have a WIM file we can deploy with SCCM!!!! (Finally….)

Greetzzzzz

Lars Verbist