Deploying Windows 10 - Part 1

Deploying Windows 10: Part 1

This next series of posts will deal with deploying Windows 10 from ConfigMgr and MDT. I will be using the latest versions of all software: Windows 10 v1511, ConfigMgr 1511 and MDT 2013 Update 1. Part one will focus on creating your reference image, part two will focus on capturing and deploying your image with ConfigMgr 1511, and part three will focus on capturing and deploying your image with MDT 2013 Update 1.

Creating your reference image is not that much different from Windows 8.1. You can configure a default profile, install any applications that you need, and configure the OS using the many of the same methods. This series will simply serve as guide to doing all of this, and will include some best practices as well as my recommendations.

I will be using Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit for my reference image.

Installing Windows 10

I always recommend creating reference images on a virtual machine platform that can do snapshots or checkpoints. I come from the VMware world, so I will refer to them as snapshots throughout this series, but the terms are interchangeable. You can use snapshots throughout the process of creating your reference image if you make a mistake. Most importantly for me, however, is being able to take a snapshot before capturing the image. This allows me to revert back after sysprep, which is helpful for running future updates, because I do not have to build the reference from scratch.

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