I created my first image this week and used it today. I don't know why I did not do it sooner. If you have not done it it's a must. It saves soo much time.
I've been using custom images for a couple years but have yet to try a reload to a replacement drive with an image of windows 8, I'm thinking UFEI booting or bios activation would be screwed up somehow.
Second you use the dism command in place of imagex command for capturing and applying of the images. The commands are similar with a slight difference in syntax.
Third you just have to create a uefi partition using diskpart along with some optional others.
Fourth I would recommend you use an 8.1 iso to do the install, this way you can sysprep it with all of the updates. You are not able to sysprep an 8 to 8.1 upgrade. After the install you can use a key finding utility that reads the uefi chip to activate it. We did our first test install Friday and the complete process from applying the image to a running desktop with all the updates took maybe 10 minutes.
I created my first image this week and used it today. I don't know why I did not do it sooner. If you have not done it it's a must. It saves soo much time.
I hear ya. We are a shop that does several nuke and paves a day. Figure 1000/year times 7 years. A real crude estimate of 5000 to 7000 since we started(that number may be high but it makes its point) . Almost all of those were done manually and most of the updates were also done manually. We just start messing around with images a couple of months ago. I cringe when I think of how much time and MONEY has been wasted by us over the years. At least today we are doing it efficiently.
I asked myself why we did not do this earlier. For most of the time I did not know any better. I did not take the time to research a better way. Then this last year even after knowing it could be done, I thought it was to hard and did not put the time into figuring it out. The funny thing is it is so simple to do.
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I said this same thing earlier in the thread but forgot. I erased the original and left this one. I wish I could give the excuse I was drunk, but that was not the case
