It's time to build a better image to deploy to my clients. The image created prior to me was never captured, so I've basically been deploying a base image, via Litetouch and added apps to it... then going back and adding updates, altering settings etc. Still took too long, and still too many variables for differences between them. Thing is, outside of a lab, I haven't done it either, not properly anyway.
I've created a test image, and now I'm adding updates and settings but not adding applications (like Office, Adobe, etc. I have packages already, can they stay?)
How do I capture this image and make it my base image, but more importantly, I'm concerned about the following items:
Workstation name. (We have a naming convention based on serial number)
MAK key, I've never gotten this to work, so I'm prompted during the setup, and again when I first use the device.....
3 different laptops, so 3 different images with 3 sets of drivers, correct? (Not an issue, I mean I can, but just want to be sure this is how it's done.)
M$ updates. I always do updates, so does this mean that if I capture the image with all updates and drivers up to today (April 15, today), that I only need to worry about future updates to the device (this alone would save me a bundle of time..)
Am I missing any important factors here?
INFO: Win Serv 2008 R2, Sp1 , MDT 2012, Workbench 6.02, Mgmt Console 3.0, version 6.1 Sp1