All prestaged media really buys you is time; you are "pre-staging" the content on the local drive so that it doesn't have to download it (and, in the case of the image itself, apply it to the drive). If you have a big image and a ton of apps, this can save you many gigs of download at imaging time. Everything else related to imaging a system still needs to be done (unattend.xml, etc.), so while it can definitely speed up your process it's still going to take some time.
If it's going into the mini-setup, then it's not set to boot from the prestaged boot image on the drive and instead is booting directly to the prestaged (sysprep'd) operating system. How are you applying the prestaged .wim to the drive? -Phil _________________________________________________________________ Phil Schwan | Technical Specialist, Enterprise Windows Services Project Leadership Associates | 2000 Town Center, Suite 1900, Southfield, MI 48075 Lync: 312.756.1626 Mobile: 419.262.5133 www.projectleadership.net<http://www.projectleadership.net/> [Description: Description: Description: Arrow email]Lead with Strategy. Leverage Technology. Deliver Results. [linkedin_logo-19x20]<http://www.linkedin.com/in/philschwan>[Twitter-Logo1-20x20]<https://twitter.com/philschwan> [wordpress-logo3] <http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/author/philschwan> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Barnes,Chris Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 4:40 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com; mdt...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions Bump. It doesn't look like these options are available with SCCM2012 R2 / MDT 2013, I am seeing that people are pointing at using the Pre-staged media option. However, when my machine boots, it goes into the mini-setup, and doesn't apply any of the task sequence. Is anyone actually using this feature? I am at a remote site to try and get this working, I need to get this running this week. Anyone able to help before I have to call Microsoft? Chris Barnes Senior Technical Specialist - Penske Automotive Group cbar...@penskeautomotive.com<mailto:cbar...@penskeautomotive.com> Desk: (248) 648-2528 Cell: (248) 767-4415 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Barnes,Chris Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 4:34 PM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com>; mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions Is this functionality still available in SCCM 2012 R2? Would it be easier to just take my existing image TS and create a pre-stage file for it? Any gotch'as around doing that? It looks like I would just copy the .wim file created a HDD, and it will execute the TS as it comes up. This may do what I need. Chris Barnes Senior Technical Specialist - Penske Automotive Group cbar...@penskeautomotive.com<mailto:cbar...@penskeautomotive.com> Desk: (248) 648-2528 Cell: (248) 767-4415 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Chris 'Oz' Oswalt Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:24 PM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com>; mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions You need to create a separate task sequence that is designed for creating an image for duplicating. This is similar to giving an OEM an image to apply to computers before being sent to the your end user. You need to enable MDT integration or just do it with MDT. I like using pure MDT because it's a little cleaner. Once you have created the image you'll capture it. You can then apply that image to a hard drive. A final MDT process will run on first boot of the computer. Here you can run LTI/ZTI processes such as set computer name, join domain, etc. Take a look at these. It's more work but the better way. Happy imaging. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_semi/archive/2011/01/18/creating-faster-oem-images-with-osd-and-mdt.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee430892.aspx From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:12 PM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com>; mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions The CM client will detect the hardware change and generate a new GUID. Of course that's gonna foul things up in the database because there will be duplicate records for the machines for a little while. ________________________________ John Marcum Sr. Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller, Todd Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:50 AM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com>; mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions Yeah, I dunno about this. The GUID and MAC addresses will be new, but the computer will have an established SCCM account (and McAfee EPO and any other managementy type IDs or licensed software that gloms on to the GUID) that will get all fouled up. Maybe - best case, you would just end up with a bunch of duplicate system objects in SCCM that would clean themselves out over a few weeks. An old obsolete record from when the computer was in chassis A and then a new object for the same name in Chassis B. I am not sure what happens to your Windows license when it activates in one hardware and then finds itself in another machine - certainly the hardware GUID is going to change. Windows license sometimes gets lost when you swap a processor - let alone the whole system. Would you have to go through a rearm process or will Windows reactivate on the new hardware automatically ? I dunno. I'd think to the Windows licensing service this would look similar to piracy. (I'm not suggesting that it is piracy or illegal - clearly it is not. I just mean that to the automated systems it is going to look like you are licensing in one spot and then putting that Windows license into one or more new computers) Maybe if you ran a sysprep on the computer after imaging and before placing it in the new computer - that might work.... This sounds like a mess to me. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:30 AM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com>; mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions A better solution IMO would be to deliver the machine in which the drive was imaged to the user, remove their computer and recycle it. At the VERY least you are going to have to rename each machines (assuming your TS doesn't prompt for a computer name). Once the client sees that it's in a new machine it's going to generate a new unique ID and this is all probably going to wreak havoc on CM for a day or so. ________________________________ John Marcum Sr. Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Barnes,Chris Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:11 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com>; mdt...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mdt...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [MDT-OSD] Imaging Questions Hey guys, I have a remote site that is wanting to deviate a bit from our standard imaging setup. They have 2012R2 Secondary site / DP local to them, using PXE, with the TS advertised to the Unknown Computers collection. They have a bunch of machines that they want to re-image from XP to 7 that are all the same model. What they want to do is to buy new hard drives, image that drive, take the drive out of that computer and put it in the destination computer. They then want to re-use the initial chassis to re-image another drive, and so on. To keep the TS available for unknown computers they will need to delete the newly registered client out of SCCM after each image, right? The client should re-register itself with the new MAC, I assume. I am not a big fan of this, but I may not have a choice in supporting it. I am trying to think of any issues that I may come up against that I will need to solve. Can anyone think of anything that might be a show stopper, or that I may need to watch out for? 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