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We can create custom installation images for our Windows servers to

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be cloned and easily deployed many times over.

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I want to install a custom image,

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and I'm in a Windows 2022 server that has nothing configured on it at all.

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It's not even activated, which is why you see the black screen.

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We can't make a change unless we activate the license.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to install the application called PuTTY.

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So that way we've customized this image,

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and then I'm going to run an application that's going to generalize the image.

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Generalizing the image allows us to create an image that can

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then be copied and then customized for Windows deployment

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services and then pushed out to new users.

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A great example of this would be software needed for the accounting department,

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the HR department, the IT department, they're all going to be different,

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so we can install applications for all these different departments and

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that way they'll only get the image that's right for them with

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applications that have the right licensed software.

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I've got my application installed on my server,

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and I can confirm that by going to the Start button,

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and there's my PuTTY application.

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Next what I'm going to do is I'm going to install an application called

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Sysprep. A captured file copies the custom image I create here and then I

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copy it up to Windows Deployment Services for use by various job titles or

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departments that all need different software.

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Sysprep has launched, and what I want to do is choose the default out‑of‑box

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experience, or OOBE as we sometimes call it, and choose Generalize. And then the

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shutdown option, we want it to shut down when done.

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So what this is going to do is it's going to create this

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special configuration that's going to allow this to be used

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for Windows Deployment Services.

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If it has any special custom configurations other than installed applications,

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many of these are going to be stripped out.

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So it just has the applications installed with no computer name,

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no IP address,

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no other information, not even a license if you licensed the server,

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all that's going to be stripped out so this particular image can

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then be cloned. And when it's done doing all that,

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it's going to shut down this particular server, and then we

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can use that in Windows Deployment Services.

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You definitely don't want to log into it after you've

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generalized it, otherwise just by logging into it,

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you're going to be creating a custom user folder that's going to

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need to be stripped out and generalized again.

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So once it's all done,

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just go ahead and use Windows Deployment Services to

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then configure that as a custom image.

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Soon this image will be able to be used as a template for

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creating custom Windows deployment images to be used in Windows Deployment Services.