Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
81 lines (57 loc) · 2.92 KB

walkthrough-winpe.md

File metadata and controls

81 lines (57 loc) · 2.92 KB
Raw

Walkthrough

Congrats for completing the walkthrough! We are here to deploy your image to a bare metal PC.

Deploying Windows PE

Download Windows 10 ADK from Microsoft. Follow the instructions for creating a Windows PE boot USB drive. You need to customize the image to include Powershell.

#todo #up_for_grabs Windows 10 PE build bsd.

Deploying Windows 10

Copy out your customized image (*.swm) to your USB drive. Let's put them in [USB]\osimage\ (create the folder) on your USB drive.

Copy out the C:\WindowsBuilder\provisioning folder to your USB too.

Boot the PC you want to service using that USB drive. You should boot into Windows PE.

Once you are in:

powershell
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Get-PSDrive
# Assuming D: is the USB drive
ipmo D:\provisioning\WindowsProvisioning.psm1
Get-Disk
# Take note of the disk number of the PC's boot disk. Be very careful!
# The boot disk is normally disk 0, but double check, because that disk will be formatted.
Install-WindowsImage -ImagePath D:\osimage\surfacepro.swm -Index 3 -DiskNumber 0 -UEFI -Compact -Verbose
# The `UEFI` parameter is recommended for newer PC that supports UEFI firmware.
# The `Compact` parameter is recommended when the boot disk is a SSD.
# The `-Verbose` parameter is optional, but we want to see what it is doing for this exercise

Preboot Customization

Use [USB Drive]/provisioning/customizer.ps1 to generate oemcustom.json and unattend.xml. Then copy the files:

. D:\provisioning\customizer.ps1
# Answer the questions

# Assuming I: is the new drive letter of the Windows volume
copy D:\provisioning\oemcustom.json I:\Windows\Setup\Scripts\ -Force
copy D:\provisioning\unattend.xml I:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\ -Force

Finalize deployment

You should now unplug the USB drive from your PC.

Reboot the PC for installation to continue. The PC should reboot 3 times, finishing at the logon screen.

Restart-Computer

Three accounts are created by default. The super account is an administrative account, another one with your customized name is a normal user account, and a Friend account for guest access.

Logon using the super account, using the password provided in the preboot customization stage. You can get the passwords for 2 additiona accounts created from [USB drive]\provisioning\unattend.xml, or just set new passwords for these accounts using the super account.

We recommend using the normal user account for daily work.

Optimization for Production

The default accounts created can be fully customized by editing the following files:

  • provisioning\customizer.ps1
  • provisioning\Unattend.xml.tmpl

In addition, edit the oemcustom-ref.json to automate the customizer. If you provide all fields in the referance JSON file, the customizer will not prompt for anything.