RDS VDI Issues

Hopefully someone has come across this before...
We have configured a 2012 R2 server with Hyper-V and RDS for a VDI deployment. Our golden image is Windows 7 SP1 Enterprise (32-bit) and is giving us issue after issue when we try to create a collection. Basically, we receive one of two errors:
1. If we do not update the Integration Components, we receive an error when creating the collection stating that they are not up to date and the collection is created, but the VMs are not (so it's useless).
2. If we do update the IC, then sysprep will not work properly (after sysprepping the image it restarts and goes right into Windows or shuts down and looks OK, but when attempting to create the image the wizard says that it has not been "sysprep
generalized"). We have tried performing the sysprep in and out of audit mode as well as stepping into it by doing a reboot into OOBE and then generalizing, etc.
To sysprep we are using the following command (and multiple iterations of the order of the switches):
sysprep /oobe /shutdown /generalize
Any assistance or tips would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
From your description appears that there is some configuration issue during creating an image and manage that image for VDI. There is step by step article which can get you through for your case. Please follow the article and recheck all the related steps
Single Image Management for Virtual Desktop Collections in Windows Server 2012
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2012/10/29/single-image-management-for-virtual-desktop-collections-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
Step-By-Step: Deploying Virtual Desktops with Windows Server 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2013/04/25/step-by-step-deploying-virtual-desktops-with-windows-server-2012.aspx
Hope it helps!
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