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Windows 10 Sysprep

I am trying to image one new workstation successfully so I can deploy that image to others. Sysprep has crashed every machine I've touched. Every new machine I run Sysprep on, it no longer boots. It gets a missing Winload.efi error. Should I be disabling Secure Boot before I run Sysprep?

I am running Sysprep from several new Windows 10 machines to get a base image. I patch Windows, install Office then run Sysprep....OOBE - Generalize - Shutdown.

Is there something I'm missing when running Sysprep?

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David McMorris

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Shane

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I have a new machine I just got out. I disabled secure boot but it's going to take all day to patch. Once it's done patching, I will sysprep it. Should I be patching it in Audit Mode? I did remove some of the built in apps but not all. I would hate to get rid of the calculator and a few others.

Is there a quick way to remove all built in apps?

Thank you

David McMorris

Hi Shane,

No you don't have to use audit mode to patch. Do everything you need to do with the image and then sysprep with OOBE / Generalise. How are you capturing the image? Are you using a Windows Deployment Server?

The command i use to remove the apps is. Use Powershell with admin rights. This does not remove the apps, it only removes it for the sysprep, the OOBE process brings the apps back.

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Thanks,

David

Shane

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Disabling secure boot and removing the apps did the trick. I did re-enable secure boot after Sysprep was finished. We are using CloneZilla to capture the image.

Thank you