Custom Image Capture that Auto Imports the OS WIM and Creates a New Task Sequence

Question

We just finished a consulting project where our customer requested an easy solution to capture thick images.  After hearing their reasoning it made sense for their circumstances.  The people that
will be managing the system will be non-technical and all they wanted was a very, very simple method of capturing and deploying images with no learning curve.   They wanted the ability to Deploy the images via PXE.  
This quickly became both our easiest scope project but making MDT simple for non-technical users can be challenging.   The MDT capture and staging steps are pretty easy for tech savvy person but for non-technical people it presented a learning
curve that the customer wanted simplified. They didn’t want to understand sysprep, capture, importing an OS and then creating a Task Sequence to reference that new image.        
So we changed the scope of our project to automate MDT to perform additional steps following the capture that would:
Automatically Import the Captured OS into the MDT Deployment Share
Automatically Create a new Task Sequence that references the newly imported image
Auto Name the Task Sequence with the Model Name, Date and Time of Capture
The Final Solution:
Customer will setup a Windows PC Thick Image (All software and drivers)
The customer will Kick-off the Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence
The customized Task Sequence will capture, import the new image, and create a new TS with the new image
Customer can then PXE boot a new computer and Deploy the image or stage to media and deploy the image
We were able to remove the import OS and create new task sequence steps and this simplified it for our customer considerably.  If anyone is interested in this functionality
let me know and I can send you instructions.  We used Vbscript, Powershell and PSExec.exe from PowerShell.  It seems to being working pretty good so far
MDT Task Sequence Duplicator https://panaconsulting.egnyte.com/h-s/20130614/61707be809944999 Application Bundle Duplicator https://panaconsulting.egnyte.com/h-s/20130614/405e7d64e5d54610

Answer 1

We just finished a consulting project where our customer requested an easy solution to capture thick images.  After hearing their reasoning it made sense for their circumstances.  The people that
will be managing the system will be non-technical and all they wanted was a very, very simple method of capturing and deploying images with no learning curve.   They wanted the ability to Deploy the images via PXE.  
This quickly became both our easiest scope project but making MDT simple for non-technical users can be challenging.   The MDT capture and staging steps are pretty easy for tech savvy person but for non-technical people it presented a learning
curve that the customer wanted simplified. They didn’t want to understand sysprep, capture, importing an OS and then creating a Task Sequence to reference that new image.        
So we changed the scope of our project to automate MDT to perform additional steps following the capture that would:
Automatically Import the Captured OS into the MDT Deployment Share
Automatically Create a new Task Sequence that references the newly imported image
Auto Name the Task Sequence with the Model Name, Date and Time of Capture
The Final Solution:
Customer will setup a Windows PC Thick Image (All software and drivers)
The customer will Kick-off the Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence
The customized Task Sequence will capture, import the new image, and create a new TS with the new image
Customer can then PXE boot a new computer and Deploy the image or stage to media and deploy the image
We were able to remove the import OS and create new task sequence steps and this simplified it for our customer considerably.  If anyone is interested in this functionality
let me know and I can send you instructions.  We used Vbscript, Powershell and PSExec.exe from PowerShell.  It seems to being working pretty good so far
MDT Task Sequence Duplicator https://panaconsulting.egnyte.com/h-s/20130614/61707be809944999 Application Bundle Duplicator https://panaconsulting.egnyte.com/h-s/20130614/405e7d64e5d54610
I would love to get the instructions to this process, as I have a simular client.