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Imaging Windows 7 w/ Altiris 7.1

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I'm trying to image Windows 7 using Altiris 7.1 and it is not working as intended.

 

I have created a custom unattend.xml file and have overwritten the one located at \nscap/bin/win32/x86/deployment.
I also have a SetupComplete.cmd that enables and renames the built-in Administrator account.

 

Here are the steps I take:

  1. Boot new PC into Audit Mode
  2. Configure and install applications
  3. Copied the Unattend.xml to windows\system32\sysprep
  4. Copied the SetupComplete.cmd to windows\setup\scripts
  5. Install Altiris agent and push a job containing:
  • Prepare for Image Capture (Options selected: Windows 7 Pro x86 SP1, Current Key, and Reboot to PXE)
  • Capture Image (Options selected: Ghost and Disk Image)
  • Reboot to Production

When it reboots, the Unattend.xml tells the system to automatically log in once. However, it doesn't log in and the administrator account is still disabled and there's no way to get into Windows 7.

I then...

  1. Remove all records of the PC from Altiris
  2. Reboot into Automation
  3. Push a job containing:
  • Deploy Image (Options selected: Current Key, deselected DeployAnywhere, Generate Sysprep)
  • Reboot to Production

I get the same results

I tried changing Sysprep Configuration from Generate to Custom pointing it to \nscap\bin\win32\x86\deploy and get the same results.

If I run the sysprep manually everything works as intended. This did work about 1-2 months ago on a previous PC and I'm not sure what changed, certainly the unattend.xml and the setupcomplete.cmd did not change.

 

 


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