Windows 7 - Sysprep Problems

Hi All,

I work in an IT department and have developed a sysprepped Windows 7 Professional image using WAIK. It works well, however there are 2 things that I have been unsuccessful in figuring out at this point:

1. At the time of the creation of this image, WAIK was unable to correctly configure the sysprep file to add the Windows 7 machine to an active directory. Has this changed? Has anyone gotten sysprep to prompt for a domain?

2. I also have problems configuring the default user profile. I've tried the copy/paste method I've read on the forums here, but new users always have a black background. Anyone been able to get around this?

Thanks in advance to all help.

Is the background image in a shared space, like in the public directory?

I assume so - it's the standard Windows image used when new accounts are created. I believe the problem lies in my workaround, i.e. configuring a local account and then renaming it Default and overwriting the Default folder in C:\Users

Bit of an update - looks like the profile copy feature of WAIK is now working, so hopefully that issue has been figured out.

Sysprep a Windows 7 Machine ? Start to Finish V2 - Blog.BrianLeeJackson.com

Still unsure on how (if possible) to have sysprep prompt for the AD join.

Does testing confirm this? Still hasnt worked for me.

In my unattend xml, I've got a run once command pointing to a cmd file with a bunch of stuff, one stuff being a .vbs script which does the domain joining.