I need to create a Windows 7 enterprise edition image. I have done this many of times, but the problem with this OS is that when I install the image, it creates a PC name and add it to a domain. What am I doing wrong in my steps?
My normal process for capturing the image is:
1. Install a fresh copy of Windows 7 Enterprise and put on all the software and apply all the configuration changes. I do not add it to our domain or name the pc.
2. I navigate to the system32 folder and double-click “sysprep”. Once the GUI interface comes up, I choose “oobe” and “generalize”.
3. The PC then restart and boot from the network “LAN option”. I now have 2 options, Image Installation and Capture Image (WDS). I choose Capture Image.
4. I specify a location to save the image and it captures it. I move the file to a folder in the Windows Deployment Server and that is it.
My process to Install the image is:
1) Boot from the network. And select the option “Image Installation”.
2) I then choose the image that I previously uploaded. I then have to put in my credentials since I am access a network entity.
3) It installs all the files and restarts.
4) It then goes through the Out-Of-Box-Experience and setups up Windows. It will then ask me for a username but it won’t allow me to change the computer name. After this is done, the PC is added to a domain that I didn’t specify and it assumes a pc name derived from the credentials that I put in in Step 2.
