Can the the preloaded image provided with the Surface Pro be customized by removing unwanted applications, installing custom apps, configuring a customized default profile with a cleaned-up Start menu with everything removed except links to their work apps plus custom shortcuts on the Desktop?
I will get a USB ethernet dongle, so the only driver I want to inject is the network driver for the third party network dongle. I want either keep all the drivers intact during deployment (since the image would not be used on anything other than Surface Pros that use the same drivers) or have the drivers all download from Windows Update.
Since it is the OEM image, we would need to enter the unique license keys on each Surface Pro. Is there any way to automate this such as having it match license key from WMIC serialmumber etc and enter it automatically during deployment by matching it to a text file or spreadsheet containing license keys for each serial number?