Gutsy9108

On 4/3/2019 at 8:13 AM, RPA said:

I've been building SD images since build 1607 (mix of both Win 10 Enterprise and LTSB/LTSC) - Microsoft seemingly is constantly changing something that affects creating images on each successive build they put out.  Huge pain - reinventing the wheel all the time.  Anyway, I've recently worked through (for my environment, specifically for image for student labs where I'm building Win 10 LTSC 2019 - build 1809).  Defprof as mentioned above is good, but with MS changes doesn't properly handle start menu items or default app associations anymore.  I still use Deprof because it handles most everything else I'm looking to grab.  Anyway, here's what I'm doing (not a huge amount of detail as that would be quite extensive, but these I believe are the high points)

Having a desire to keep more than just the Start Menu layout, I still have a need to utilize most of what CopyProfile does (or in my case Defprof).  I have many items I'd like to have in my 'Golden Image', so I do the following:

1. Build the image using default admin account and customize to our needs (installed apps customized in a variety of ways, various settings, etc.)

2. I export default application associations out(to utilize in GPO) 

3. I then utilize another admin account to run Defprof for the "Administrator" account.

4. Back under "Administrator" account, I copy the following to the 'Default' user:

"%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\CloudStore" 
"%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Caches" 
"%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer" 
"%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer"

5. I shutdown VM and capture image.

Once device is imaged and is added to the domain, my users (many are first time logins in student labs & not using roaming profiles), users get the exact desktop experience each time and with GPO, have the default applications associations applied without Windows 10 LTSC 2019 (build 1809) reseting application associations.

Hi! I know this is an old thread but I would like to know the log in times (the time when the user enter their credentials to log in and get to the desktop) you have for your domain users in the lab? We have Deepfreeze on the labs and have approximately about two minutes with first login and then 0:40 - 0:55 seconds for the next users.

Hello,

I am trying to deploy an image via Windows Deployment Service and so far the image has been applied to client machines. However, platform packs and Smartdeploy.xml is not being applied to the machine after the imaging process. As a result, the image doesn’t have any drivers installed including the network card, graphics card and etc. My question is: What is the exact location that I can put the platform packs (default.ppk) and .xml file in WDS server so clients will point to it while deploying the image. I tried putting a driver package to WDS server under Drivers and I was getting an error: “E:\RemoteInstall\Images\Default.ppk is not a directory. Please enter an existing directory”.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.