Deploying captured image of reference computer - WDS & MDT

Question

Hi, yesterday I set up MDT 2012 Update 1 on Windows 7 computer and WDS on Windows Server 2008 R2. I completed the following tasks:
Create New Deployment Share
Import Operating System (Windows 7) into Deployment Share
Import network drivers for HP Compaq Pro 6300 Small Form Factor into Deployment Share
Create Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence for capturing image of reference computer
Update Deployment Share
Prepare reference computer for imaging - install OS, drivers, apps, patches . . .
Run Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence from reference computer
Import captured image of reference computer into Deployment Share
Create Standard Client Task Sequence for deploying captured image to bare-metal computer
Use Lite_Touch wim file as WDS boot image
Run PXE boot on bare-metal computer
Enter necessary information - computer name, domain name, time zone and so on
I took more than 2 hours to complete deployment of captured image to bare-metal computer. Everything worked well but after this process finished I noticed that computer name was not the one I entered in TS nor computer was joined to the domain. Time zone
was not set. It seems that computer name, workgroup membership, time zone can not be altered in TS - they remain the same as they were on sysprepped computer.

Answer 1

My doubts and yours Keith were right, sysprep was not performed well at all via Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence so I did
sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown on reference machine and then booted it into WinPE with ImageX tool (if I am right in newest ADK dism is main tool for capturing online images instead of ImageX which is deprecated). I captured
image of Windows 7 OS partition and copied it to MDT technician computer, imported it as operating system in MDT deployment share and selected it as .wim image to deploy to new bare metal machine via Standard Client Task Sequence. During deployment entered
values for computer name, time zone were applied successfully and computer was joined to a domain. After restart message was shown with info that built in local administator account was disabled with switch user option where I could choose local account that
existed on sysprepped machine or domain account.
Conclusion: Sysprep step in Sysprep and Capture TS in MDT does not work at all. I will try this on newest version of MDT (MDT 2013) since I am testing now on MDT 2012 Update 1 version. If sysprep does not work again MDT is useless for capturing images thus
I have to use sysprep manually and then dism for capturing sysprepped image.
Thank you very much for your time and patience.