Ok After a lot of searching, I have finallay found how to capture Windows 7 & The custom profile settings. Its not as intuitive as Windows XP.

You need to read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2101557 but essentially its a process of:

  • logging in as local\Administrator
  • Customising Windows (start menu, desktop etc)
  • Creating an “unattended.xml” using WAIK (for windows 7) and placing in the sysprep folder
  • Running the “Capture Media”
  • Deploying Windows 7 using the xml created before.

I rough guide here.

  1. Install Windows 7
  2. Choose any default username & login
  3. Goto Computer Management & User Accounts
  4. Enable the local\administator account
  5. Delete the user accounts except local\Administator
  6. Reboot
  7. Apply all the customisations
  8. Save the Unattended.xml to %windir%\system32\sysprep\unattended.xml
  9. Insert SCCM Capture media & capture
  10. When deploying, Make sure you apply the XML as part of the TS

Links:

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2224-how-to-copy-default-profile-during-sccm-sysprep/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2101557http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrosd/thread/8869ebaa-15ec-4e6d-a0f2-e476d1ae66dc#cd98f098-b397-4be6-9637-f0e848d3693a

http://www.leinss.com/vistadeploy.html