OS build and image capture

- [Instructor] System Center Configuration Manager has the ability to push out an image to a new PC or virtual machine using the PXE environment. PXE actually stands for Pre-Execution Environment. In order to prepare for that, we need to install a new boot image, and once we do that, we can deploy an image to a new PC. So let's start by going into our File Explorer, and we see that we have a Windows 10 DVD mounted in File Explorer. So we're going to open that, and now we're going to do a search for install.wim. And there it is under Sources, so we'll copy that, and then we'll go back to our C: drive, and from here, we'll create a new folder, and call it Share. And now we'll go into Sharing, and you can do advanced sharing or simple sharing, whatever you want, and click okay, and close, so now this file is shared. And we'll paste in our install.wim file that we copied from our Windows 10 DVD. Install.wim is a compressed file and it contains a lot of other files inside it that are associated with the metadata, and it's included in all Windows installation media. And just to confirm that the share works properly, we'll do a check here, and there's the Share, and there's our file. Okay, now we'll go back into SCCM, and we're going to be in the Software Library section that you see here, and let's scroll down to where it says Operating System Images. And we'll right-click and choose an operating system image. Now we'll choose our path, and we'll put in the same path that we just chose earlier. And choose our file. And if there's multiple images, like there is in this one, you'll want to check the box and choose which one that you want to pull off. So I'm going to say choose the Windows 10 Enterprise, but you can choose whichever one you want. If you don't have multiple versions, then you won't see all those options. And we'll click next, and now it's exporting. So this export process is basically copying the file from the new share that we created on our host, into the SCCM library, and then it's going to extract it and create an operating system we can use in our task sequence. And depending on the speed of your computer, it could take several minutes, up to a half an hour, in my case it took roughly three minutes. And it's all done, it was successful, click close, and now we have our operating system image. Now we'll click on Task Sequences, and we'll create a new task sequence. We're going to choose to build and capture a reference operating system, and it's going to use that install.wim package that we just imported. We'll call the task sequence name Win 10 Enterprise Build, and we'll browse to a boot image. Now the boot image is a little bit different. This was created when we installed SCCM, and that came with the ADK program that we installed prior to the SCCM install, and if you missed that, you can check that out in a previous video. Now we'll choose our package, and it's loading the Windows 10 Enterprise that we just extracted from that install.wim. Now we can leave the product key blank and fill that in later, or if you have one you'd like to use, you can go ahead and enter it at this time. We're also going to leave under server licensing mode, do not specify, and again, we can specify that at a future time. Now let's click on the enable account and specify the administrator password. So I'm going to type in the password that I want to use for our administrator account, and click next. If you'd like to join a domain, you can click that here, and we're going to do that. There's our domain, and the OU we want to use is going to be Computers, but you can make it anything you want. And we can specify the account that has the permission to join the domain, so we'll put in under browse, administrator. And make sure under location it's set to domain. And we'll put in the administrator password twice, and it's always a good idea to verify, and we were successful. Our package is automatically installed, and if you'd like to browse to a different package you can, but we're going to use the default, so we'll click next. You can also install software updates if you want, or you can skip that. I'm going to skip it for now. And if we'd like to install any applications we can do so, as well. We've not actually done that prior to this, so you don't see any when you click on the star button. So we would've needed to previously install those applications the same way we did the install.wim file, and then you would've seen those there. Click next, and next again, and now we want to find the path to where we want to save this, and we'll just put it right in the Share, just like we did, and we'll call it Windows 10 Enterprise Build once again, and we'll set the account to be the same. And once you've confirmed everything you can go ahead and click next, and it'll start working. And it was successful. We can click close, and now that's done. The OS build and capture is complete. In an upcoming video, we're going to deploy this to a brand new work station.