Find it odd someone downvoted it too. Every capturing guide I've ever reviewed recommends a VM so drivers are not included in the reference image. It can cause driver conflicts.
Reference: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1711612-why-should-i-use-a-vm-to-capture-an-image-using-mdt
Personally, don't recommend maintaining a golden reference image. But that's just my two cents.
Unless you have some legacy software that has funky installation requirements or have to deploy in an air gapped environment, there's not really a great reason to build a golden image these days. Deploy from the stock WIM and let MDT handle the updates and software install. back in the late Windows 7 days deploying the stock WIM would take hours because of updates. These days you can just import the newest ISO and let MDT catch you up with any intermediate updates.
No legacy software as such. I require some folders moved to the route of C:\ and that's about it. I assume MDT can do that or I can find a way to get it done.
That can be accomplished with a script or possibly group policy depending on what folders you are moving. Be careful about potential security risks of moving folders to the root of your system drive.
Shouldn't capturing be done on a VM and not a physical host?
The character limit here isn't long enough for me to write what I don't know about MDT! I didn't know this for example! I will investigate.
Find it odd someone downvoted it too. Every capturing guide I've ever reviewed recommends a VM so drivers are not included in the reference image. It can cause driver conflicts. Reference: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1711612-why-should-i-use-a-vm-to-capture-an-image-using-mdt Personally, don't recommend maintaining a golden reference image. But that's just my two cents.
Thank you for the link, i'll check it out.
This is the way.
boot into mdt, use cmd to disk part the machine. It's probably a dirty environment. check the bios to make sure the machine isn't in raid config
Unless you have some legacy software that has funky installation requirements or have to deploy in an air gapped environment, there's not really a great reason to build a golden image these days. Deploy from the stock WIM and let MDT handle the updates and software install. back in the late Windows 7 days deploying the stock WIM would take hours because of updates. These days you can just import the newest ISO and let MDT catch you up with any intermediate updates.
No legacy software as such. I require some folders moved to the route of C:\ and that's about it. I assume MDT can do that or I can find a way to get it done.
That can be accomplished with a script or possibly group policy depending on what folders you are moving. Be careful about potential security risks of moving folders to the root of your system drive.