About to Create an Image for Fleet. Any Opinions or advice

ike12

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Hi. I have a Laptop/Tablet and I am about to start creating an image for my fleet, we are mostly windows 7 at the moment but moving to windows 8.1 Pro.

I am very new to the process of adding needed software,etc to a windows 8.1 image and then "creating" an image to deploy to fleet. (sysprep,unattend) everything is new.

What are the steps involved? any great guides on this from beginning to end?

Thank you all for your time and help..
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
    Computer type
    Tablet
You will have to install Windows 8.1 clean, not an upgrade. If you try to perform an upgrade, and then try to run Sysprep you will find that you are greeted with a nice error saying, "sorry, you cannot sysprep an upgraded machine".

Don't take offence if people don't immediately answer you. Imaging for multiple computers is something that most enthusiasts here don't do. You have to wait for us guys who work in IT and deploy new machines into our environment to come along and comment.

I responded as soon as I saw this thread for the first time.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Self-Built in July 2009
    CPU
    Intel Q9550 2.83Ghz OC'd to 3.40Ghz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev. 1.1, F12 BIOS
    Memory
    8GB G.Skill PI DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 timings
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 1280MB Nvidia GeForce GTX570
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC899A 8 channel onboard audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    23" Acer x233H
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Intel X25-M 80GB Gen 2 SSD
    Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black, 32MB cache. WD1001FALS
    PSU
    Corsair 620HX modular
    Case
    Antec P182
    Cooling
    stock
    Keyboard
    ABS M1 Mechanical
    Mouse
    Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
    Internet Speed
    15/2 cable modem
    Other Info
    Windows and Linux enthusiast. Logitech G35 Headset.
Along that line, typically, a backup copy of one PC can be easily restored to another PC IF, the second PC has an identical motherboard CPU and attached hardware. In which case, both PC's use the same Driver Package. Then the Restored OS runs without any additional driver installs, etc.

In Companies or Corp's where PC's are purchased in batches, where they are all identical, copying one PC to another is pretty simple.
Just make a backup copy on one PC and restore it to a second PC.
It gets a lot simpler, when only data files need to be restored and not the OS itself.

The whole project gets really complicated really quick when the To and From PC's are not alike.

Just a thought!

TM :cool:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win-8.1/Pro/64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer X-1200
    CPU
    AMD 2 Core
    Motherboard
    Acer
    Memory
    Crucial, 4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDEA GeForce 9200
    Sound Card
    On Board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    24" Acer
    Hard Drives
    Sandisk, SSD 500GB
    PSU
    Acer
    Case
    SFF Slimline
    Keyboard
    emachines 101 key
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless
    Internet Speed
    5 Meg
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    Using Classic Shell on Win-8.1 /pro/64
thank you both for your time and help. i guess im confused now as i just got my OEM version of windows 8 x64 and its windows 8 not 8.1 and i was told they dont offer or make a windows 8.1 OEM... ??
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
    Computer type
    Tablet

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    ME, XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Notebooks x 3

    Desktops x 5

    Towers x 4
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