Re: Need Help with capturing an image

Sounds like you need an unattend.xml file.  I have a two partition image (.WIM), 1st partition 100MB SYSTEM Partition, and 2nd partition is the WINDOWS partition (the remaining drive space).  I then leave the image in Audit mode and shut it down.  I use the unattend.xml file to process the 'generalize' and 'oobeSystem'.  It has been working flawlessly for a couple of years.

This is my Unattend.xml file which gets copied to the C:\unattend.xml just after the image is deployed, but before the first reboot.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<unattend>

  <settings pass="auditSystem">

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

      <DriverPaths>

        <PathAndCredentials wcm:keyValue="1" wcm:action="add">

          <Path>c:\windows\LDDriverStore</Path>

        </PathAndCredentials>

      </DriverPaths>

    </component>

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" processorArchitecture="x86">

      <UserAccounts>

        <AdministratorPassword>

          <PlainText>true</PlainText>

          <Value>AdminPassword</Value>

        </AdministratorPassword>

      </UserAccounts>

      <AutoLogon>

        <Enabled>true</Enabled>

        <Username>Administrator</Username>

        <Password>

          <PlainText>true</PlainText>

          <Value>AdminPassword</Value>

        </Password>

        <LogonCount>1</LogonCount>

      </AutoLogon>

    </component>

  </settings>

  <settings pass="auditUser">

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

      <RunSynchronous>

        <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">

          <Order>1</Order>

          <Path>c:\windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /reboot </Path>

        </RunSynchronousCommand>

      </RunSynchronous>

    </component>

  </settings>

  <settings pass="generalize">

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

      <PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>

    </component>

  </settings>

  <settings pass="oobeSystem">

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" processorArchitecture="x86">

      <OOBE>

        <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>

        <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>

        <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>

        <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>

      </OOBE>

      <ProductKey>xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx</ProductKey>

      <RegisteredOwner>Reg-Owner</RegisteredOwner>

      <RegisteredOrganization>Reg-Organization</RegisteredOrganization>

      <TimeZone>Central Standard Time</TimeZone>

      <UserAccounts>

        <AdministratorPassword>

          <PlainText>true</PlainText>

          <Value>AdminPassword</Value>

        </AdministratorPassword>

      </UserAccounts>

      <AutoLogon>

        <Enabled>true</Enabled>

        <Username>Administrator</Username>

        <Password>

          <PlainText>true</PlainText>

          <Value>AdminPassword</Value>

        </Password>

        <LogonCount>1</LogonCount>

      </AutoLogon>

      <FirstLogonCommands>

        <SynchronousCommand>

          <CommandLine>c:\ldsleep.exe 30</CommandLine>

          <Description></Description>

          <Order>1</Order>

        </SynchronousCommand>

        <SynchronousCommand>

          <CommandLine>cmd /q /c del /q c:\ldsleep.exe</CommandLine>

          <Description></Description>

          <Order>2</Order>

        </SynchronousCommand>

        <SynchronousCommand>

          <CommandLine>cmd /q /c \\20ldmgr.via-christi.org\ldlogon\wscfg32.exe /F /L /STATUS /NOREBOOT</CommandLine>

          <Description></Description>

          <Order>3</Order>

        </SynchronousCommand>

        <SynchronousCommand>

          <CommandLine>cmd /q /c del /q c:\ldiscan.cfg</CommandLine>

          <Description></Description>

          <Order>4</Order>

        </SynchronousCommand>

</FirstLogonCommands>

</component>

  </settings>

  <settings pass="specialize">

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" processorArchitecture="x86">

      <ComputerName>%COMPUTERNAME%</ComputerName>

    </component>

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" processorArchitecture="x86">

      <Identification>

        <Credentials>

          <Domain>my-domain.com</Domain>

          <Username>domainuser</Username>

          <Password>password</Password>

        </Credentials>

        <JoinDomain>my-domain</JoinDomain>

      </Identification>

    </component>

  </settings>

</unattend>