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Hmmm... So I sysprepped a VM (hyperV) to create a 'golden image'.... But.... (alien.top)

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I understand the overall general purpose of what sysprep is. But I'm not sure if it created a file or something I can use as the golden image to deploy onto my other systems. I was hoping it was gonna create an iso or wim file that I could throw onto a USB thumb drive and use that to install Windows on my other machines.

I missed a class somewhere. Funny I don't remember skipping any of those classes. 😔

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What typically happens here is you sysprep the machine and then you would convert it to an image. In enterprise, we'd create this "golden image" and then whenever we pass automation to create a VM we specify the use of that image. Once the image is in the right state, you should be able to select that image and then say "new VM from Image" or something similar to that. I'm speaking in generic terms, but Hyper-V can do this.

Capture image using DISM is basically how you do this when you need to do this for hardware via USB.