Hello, 

We're having a difficult time creating a quickly deployable Windows 10 RTM image in SCVMM 2012 SP1. I understand that there is no way of doing this with the built-in "Create VM Template" feature in SCVMM, but our efforts of manually performing the steps also fail. I should mention that we use SCVMM as the back-end for Lab Management, so our interest is having a template that users can deploy from Microsoft Test Manager, and then be able to login to, without us having to intervene on the back end.

We've followed a few guides to sysprep and generalize an installation, and hooked up the resulting VHDX file to a template, but all customization are lost during deployment. At the very least, we'd like the Administator account to be active and have a password. We would also like Windows to skip the Welcome screens (including the "Settings" selection screen and user creation screen). Essentially, we would like to allow end-users to be able to add a Windows 10 template to an Environment in MTM and have it deploy properly, such that they can use the local Admin account (with a specific password) to login immediately after deployment.

Has anyone found a way to achieve this?

Thank you.

(looks like I've mis-categorized this thread--it should be under General, I believe, and not Clustering. If an admin can move it, that'd be great. Thank you)

• Edited by Reza Etezal Tuesday, September 08, 2015 5:11 PM wrong sub-forum

Hi Sir,

>>We've followed a few guides to sysprep and generalize an installation, and hooked up the resulting VHDX file to a template, but all customization are lost during deployment. At the very least, we'd like the Administator account to be active and have a password

I checked SCVMM 2012 SP1 UR10 , but I didn't find the support of win10 client customization .

And SCVMM 2012R2 with UR7  can provision and customize Windows 10 Client Virtual Machines :

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3066340

In your case , I'm afraid you may need to create unattend file for syspreped win10 to achieve that :

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn922445(v=vs.85).aspx

To get  further assistance regarding unattend file creation you may try to post the question inot following forum:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/home?forum=win10itprogeneral&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc

In addition , if I recall it correctly sysprep doesn't clear the local user information .

Best Regards,

Elton Ji