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I have a VM (ESXi) with a Windows 10 Professional x64 build with customizations that I want to put on the MDT server to replace the build that’s currently in use.

I uninstall VMWare Tools and sysprep it (Generalize checked, and Shut down after prep). Then I change my boot device in the BIOS of the VM to PXE. I enter the Capture option, map the folder on the MDT server where I want to save the image, and I save it there. The process completes with no issues.

The issue appears when I deploy the image. I PXE boot, go to Deployment, select the W10 image as the image I want to use. The process appears to complete, at first glance, but:

  • on one PC, I got the “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to reboot” screen. If I reboot, it goes to the same screen

  • on two others, it says updates must be applied in order for Windows to start and it says to click next to configure network options. I click next and the computer just reboots. I’ve repeated this up to 4 times and it still doesn’t start normally

There are drivers on the MDT server for the specific computers I was trying to deploy to.

Do you think the problem is with the image or task sequence? Any specific ideas?

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Best practice is to NOT install the guest tools on the “Gold Image”. For this reason, a good hypervisor software to use would be Microsoft’s Hyper-V.

That being said, when the error message appears during the start up, use the key combination “Shift + f10”. This should bring up a CMD prompt. Navigate to c:\windows\panther, and open the “setuperr.log” file in notepad with the command “notepad c:\windows\panther\setuperr.log”. This should at least give you an error code to research and start with.

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You should never need to PXE boot. From the desktop connect to the mdt deployment share (no drive letter) and change directory to the Scripts folder and run the Litetouch.vbs. It will know to reboot into capturing the image. As mentoned above never installs any drivers (Vm tools) and use the default nic driver.

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EDIT: I know what you’re talking about now. Apparently that isn’t set up on the server and it’s not a configuration that can take place before this needs to be done.

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If I were you, I would follow this guide. This is the best way to build a reference image for Windows 10.

Note: If you have modifications you need to make to your Gold Image, than just add a step in the task sequence and call the ZTISuspend.vbs script. This will allow you to make the modifications you need before the task sequence finishes.