Hi All First of all apology for noobish questions but I'm a realy beginner. I've read most of the articles here about OSD and I feel that more I read, the less I understand. I've 10 different types of hardwared (PCs HP, Dell, Lenovo) in my lab. I've tried to build a "the golden image" for my PCs using task sequence form SCCM 2007 R3. I'm really confused because I don't really understand what steps should I take to do that. As I understood first step is to build reference machine based on unattended.xml file I gather all required drivers and impored them into SCCM database (I have them in Drives section and also creates Drivers Pacages) My question is when shoudl I apply those drivers? I tried to use Auto Apply Drives/Packages task (I'm getting error 0x0000032 during this task) after Setup windows and ConfMrg task , also tried to use Apply Device Drivers task Could anyone please explain it to me steps to prepare OSC task sequence for different types of hardware or at least send me an example task sequece (xml) What I meant is how image creation process should looks like? 1. Deploy OS + apps on virtualmachine 2. Capture Image v1 from VM 3. Deploy captured image v1 on phisical machine 1 + apply drivers + capture image V2 4.Deploy captured image v2 on phisical machine 3 + apply drivers + capture image V3 5.Deploy captured image v3 on phisical machine N + apply drivers + capture image VN = "GOLDEN IMAGE" Regards Greg

I would start with one desktop or VM would be my choice. Start with one and get image going. Then i would add drivers and drivers packages. Add driver packages to your task senescence and set conditions based on hardware and chassis. Laptop, desktop or VM. IsLaptop=TRUE root\cimv2 Select * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct where Vendor="Dell Inc." There is no need to capture the drivers as it will be applied with the Task sequence.

Once you have your golden image (which is basically OS and applications) you import that to "Operating Systems images" section then you can create a Deploy task sequence to deploy it. You get create "golden images" using the capture method, or create a build and capture task sequence (more automated going forward to create new golden image, if apps need updating, or injecting new security patches etc etc) in that task sequence you will want to specify drivers (i would use driver packages). You can use WMI to specify which drivers are applied per model. For instance, in you task sequence you would have a install driver package step for each model. But WMI would skip the steps for drivers that don't apply. Drivers, are not always straight forward, which is, sometimes, the most difficult part about imaging. I would organize your drivers into folders so every driver for a particular model is under one directory structure. Then create driver packages per model that point to that directory structure for each model. You do NOT have to import the drivers, but you can. With SCCM 2007, I would just stick with not importing them (only drivers you really might need to import are the NIC and disk drivers)

do I understand it correctelly 1. I need to run Build and Capture task sequence first Task includes os deployment , base appliacations instalation and caputuring an image 2. Next step is deploying captured image (containing already installed applications) + injecting drivers for specific hardware base on wmi query (example: Select * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct where Vendor="Dell Inc.") right? If so one question when may I custiomize my Delault profile I need to makle some modifications (shotcuts, wallpaper, screensaver, etc) As I understand I can/should use unattended.xml file for sysprep and should use <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile> But when I use BAC task sequence I'm not able to make modification for my Administrator profile (it will be copied to Default User profile)

do I understand it correctelly 1. I need to run Build and Capture task sequence first Task includes os deployment , base appliacations instalation and caputuring an image 2. Next step is deploying captured image (containing already installed applications) + injecting drivers for specific hardware base on wmi query (example: Select * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct where Vendor="Dell Inc.") right? If so one question when may I custiomize my Delault profile I need to makle some modifications (shotcuts, wallpaper, screensaver, etc) As I understand I can/should use unattended.xml file for sysprep and should use <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile> But when I use BAC task sequence I'm not able to make modification for my Administrator profile (it will be copied to Default User profile) The way we deal with this is that at the very end of the capture task sequence, simply disable (or delete) the capture phase, and put it into a new/different task sequence: Run the task sequence to build your reference machine, then customise profile however you want or do anything else that must be done manually. The just push out the above task sequence as a normal SD advertisement.