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Win 7 SysPrep not finding out-of-box drivers on network share


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I've been imaging systems for many years but haven't quite wrapped my head around the Windows 7 SysPrep approach. Personally I think MDT is overkill for the size of our shop and I'm afraid it'll take longer to figure out than its worth. Our image is really simple and doesn't change that much. I was just trying to create ONE image for Windows 7 that could be used across multiple hw platforms.

If i create win7x64 install and copy serveral hw models drivers to C:\Drivers on a virtual machine and image it using SnapShot, everything works perfectly. I boot a new system with BartPE, image the system with my SnapShot image and the system is added to the domain, all device drivers installed and all other customizations completed....happy days.

But now my C:\Drivers folder is getting really big and I notice the Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsWinPE method.

So I add my drivers to a distribution share within WSIM and when I sysprep an image expecting the WinPE setup to load the drivers across the network....it doesn't work.

Am i missing something simple here?

 

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