11. Customizing and capturing images using MDT (Step by Step guide)

In this video series I am going to be installing and configuring the new Windows Server 2016. In the eleventh video from the series I am going to show you how you can deploy and capture reference image using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). You can customize this reference image according to your company policies and then deploy to both servers and desktops.

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[ermmoore]

Before you capture the VM turn off Enhanced Sessions. If you run the VM in an enhanced session, there will be an issue with the capture process automatically logging in after it reboots the VM. It has to reboot several times to complete. There's no issue using Enhanced Sessions when doing setup and config, just turn it off before you run the LiteTouch vb script @13:59, besides that I had no issue and this is another great guide! Thank you Nick!

[VZXMetroidHunter]

Hello Nick! I'm learning to be a System Admin in Germany. Your videos help me out a lot when I'm a little tired of the day-to-day work and I experiment with a local server. I enjoy the quality of your videos and the way you express yourself. Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming, they're great!

[aricmoody]

Thank you much for putting this together!! Excellent walk through of how this process is supposed to work. There really aren't many good examples of how this works out there on the web, so your video is like Gold. Thank you again.

[drwombat]

Excellent segment on MDT very helpful even in 2020.

EDIT: These segments are very detailed and due to that, it makes them MORE helpful in my opinion than ones that require payment like plural sight or CBT

[EYALAVRAHAMI]

I will write agian what i already wrote - your tutorials are the best on the world wide web. it's just a pleasure to watch. Thank you for them, i learn alot from them.

[michaelmurillosr.]

Nice walkthrough. There was one issue with when capturing the image however. For those of you with a blank MDT screen or command prompt window, you need to CD to the C: and remove the MININT folder. rd /S c:\MININT. Close the command prompt window will restart the computer and capturing should proceed as normal after reboot.

[maticgabrijelcic]

Hello Nick! I saw in your guide that when you said that you've put command line for creating new user and making it administrator you didn't show what command you've used. Would be really nice to show cause maybe someone will need that command line but they won't know it. On the other hand you've made really nice guide

[sebastienberger]

This video was really helpful and awsome. I already tried to implement a solution with MDT to deploy our computer, but to process was so much long to experiment and learn. At the end, my company didn't use proper windows license (OEM) to use MDT so I had to scrapt everything I have started.

Instead of working with MDT, I do directly my reference image configuration with all the software and specific windows setting. Once finish I run sysprep by command prompt without restart. after that I boot on a ISO of WinPE modified by myselft with a script to capture the system into a wim. I use another script for the deployment...

Another way I do it too since we wanted the imaging done by Dell directly I did the capture process with dell Image Assist.

Apparently it's preferable to install all the application in Audit mode for a PC in kiosk. Because, if you create an local account during your build image with an internet connection the windows Apps can update themself or deploy. If it's done sysprep no longer work. You can try to fix It but it doesn't work everytime.

Dont try to remove the windows store apps... it can break a lot of thing later.

[marcosblanco]

Thanks Nick, your information has helped me at times of need. If you ever in New Orleans, LA USA for Mardi Gras let me know.

[rayjocson]

Thank you Mr. NLB solutions person for this very helpful video tutorial. Worked like a charm. Some issues I ran into that might be relevant is the VM client on the reference machine should be installed. It's possible also that one might have to configure the IP address on the reference VM once it comes out of Sysprep/capture. Thank you again.

[govind]

Thanks Nick for creating this video. Its Very useful. Love to watch your videos.

[bachirghoggal]

Thank you very much Nick, you did a great job, and very useful.

[MGilman]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. It helped a lot!!

[IamCoolAngel]

Thank you very much Nick, that was really helpful, keep the good work 👍✌️

[JPV]

Another great video, keep goin' on !

[drwombat]

Hey Nick, wanted to say thanks again after finishing the series how useful these instructionals were for me.

One thing, I'm not sure if I missed it but I didn't see how exactly to setup/add the fully customized capture image to the WDS feature, is this just as simple as adding a new image to the list or is it more involved than that? This extra info would be super helpful

[-milog-]

Hello, great video :) Just a short question: You boot the client from a USB-Drive right? Does the client need a connection to the network and the mdt-service, or does the file on the drive work in standalone work?

[tonymiles]

Hi Nick I'm loving your tutorials. I have a question which hopefully you can help me with. In the above video I can't read the rules created for the media iso, is there anyway I could find a list of the rule with examples so I can custom my media iso further. I basically just want my image to be as close to a no touch installation. Thanks

[williamchilcote]

Thank you for the useful videos. I have watched both 10 and 11. Have you done one on adding drivers for specific models of computers? Is there a pxe boot option that you can enable on the server so that a PC can boot off network and then choose the image that you are needing on that machine?

[marxtondutton]

For others out there, don't create the boot media in the deployment share...it needs to be created somewhere else.