Windows 10: Tweaking Deployment Image For Our Business?

The title is vaige but I will still likely continue to have questions. I created a Windows 10 (home) image for our company using an ISO directly from Microsoft in Audit mode. Configured the administrator desktop the way I needed it then did a bare metal clone both before and after a sysprep using an XML unattended file. This way I have a pre-sysprep development image to make changes to as needed and a sysprepped deployment image. I am trying to work around the fact I have no group policy ability with the home licenses.

• I need some audio devices disabled in the device manager by default, but after the sysprep/copy profile it reenables the devices...is there anyway to prevent this? I tried disabling them in the sound settings as well but that does not stick either.
• I am looking into how to prevent the bundled bloatware from reinstalling after the sysprep/copy profile, it was removed from the administrator account prior to sysprep.
• I realize the start menu tile config does not copy but there has to be a way? At least leave all tiles removed so there are none after the sysprep/copy profile.
• I realize its a limitation of no group policy but I would love to block the start menu out, all the employees need is a shutdown and restart button.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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Need Help in BitLocker deployment Step by Step

Dear All,

We are planning to deploy to deploy Windows 10 BitLocker in our organization. Could you please anyone help me with step by step deployment from the scratch.

1. What are the requirement?
2. How to setup BitLocker management server?
3. What are the per-cautions and best practices?

Thanks in well advance for brief guide.

Best Regards

Faisal

 

Customised Windows 10 deployment on multiple desktops and laptops.

OK, after giving this a thought and thinking how I would do it, here's my suggestion. Please notice that, as I said, this is how I would do it. Other geeks might disagree with parts or all of it.

I tested this scenario using one Hyper-V VM as technician machine (the one to build image) and three virtual machines to test simultaneous deployment in two scenarios:

• Capturing install.wim from technician machine and using DISM to apply / deploy image from a network share
• Capturing install.wim from technician machine, making ISO from it, deploying by clean installing from ISO burned to Flash drive

Based on the fact that ISO method is clearly faster and simpler, it is what I suggest to you. I estimate you would need an hour and half to two hours to customize install image, capture it and make an ISO, then assuming you would make 5 Flash drives for install / deployment you would need about half an hour per five machines, in other words you would deploy to those 25 new machines in less than three hours, almost a full working day to deploy those 50 existing ones.

Two working days, day 1 to make the image and deploy to new machines, day 2 to deploy to old ones.

Chronological workflow based on my suggestion:

Phase 1, Image customization tutorial, parts One through Six:

• Install Windows 10 on a technician machine (I recommend Hyper-V VM but any capable PC is OK)
• Boot to Audit Mode
• Update Windows, install software, customize & personalize Windows
• Sysprep

Phase 2:

• Capture the install.wim from technician machine as told in this tutorial, Part Four steps 4.1 through 4.5 (physical PC as technician machine) or Part Four steps 4.6 through 4.13 (Hyper-V VM as technician machine)
• Create ISO as told in same tutorial, Part Five
• Burn / write ISO to as many Flash drives as you want to / need to for simultaneous installs
• Boot production machines from Flash drive, install Windows 10

The above is how I would do this. If you choose the DISM method instead, applying install.wim from a network share, see this Microsoft support article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../hh824910.aspx

For more advanced deployment using MDT see this article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../dn475741.aspx

 

regedit tweaks

Thanks for helping me, but the first link gives me the similar steps that I followed on YouTube. I want the default value not the tweaked value.