Image Capture

Archive: Best Practices to Capture an Image for Deployment

By Josh Heffner / April 30, 2015 / 31 Comments

Capturing a solid image is the first step to managing your systems properly, and I have never covered it specifically on this site until now (even though I do it frequently). This post should help guide you in using best practices for the best possible image. Typically, I do all of my image captures through MDT, …

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Archive: Two updates to apply to every Windows 7 image capture

By Josh Heffner / February 26, 2015 / 1 Comment

There are two very important updates that you should apply to every universal Windows 7 image that you use for OS deployment in MDT or ConfigMgr. These also apply to Server 2008, 2008R2, and Vista. User-Mode Driver Framework – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685813 Kernel-Model Driver Framework – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685811 These assist with driver injection on several newer models from HP, Dell, and …

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