Deploy Windows 7 Professional Image and domain join

[ze324]

I am trying to make an image of a BL460WS blade with a Windows 7 Professional installation and to deploy this image to ohter similar blades.

But after the imaging  (with sysprep) the master blade is not anymore in the domain and at first logon it asks me what type the network is.

If i deploy this image it is the same: no domain join.

Which sysprep File is taken while making of the image ? I can only specify a sysprep File in the deploy job.

Is there a working example for a sysprep file ?

I have tried standardwes7.xml in the sysprep folder (no domain join and ask for network type) and the sysprep in hpfeatures\w7-x64-pro-en_us (endless look after syntax error)

[shocko]

The domain join can be done by modifying the .xml file alright but it's easier to simply add a configure task to the deploy job to join the machine to the domain i.e.. a configure task within Altiris.

[ze324]

in the meantime i have discovered that standardvista.xml is used for Windows 7 sysprepping !

And now i also have a working xml file for deplyong windows 7 prof. In the predefined example was one step in specialice pass missing:

  <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Order>6</Order>
                    <Path>reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoLogonCount /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Which makes only one automatic logon and the deploy task works like i want it. The Problem with win7 prof is that the first network detection is not working as expected.

If found no way to get this work with the sysprep task: it always asks for the network type at first logon.

At the moment i take two images: one with sysprep and one without. After sysprep i restore the image without sysprep.

[shocko]

PS: the master device must be unjoined form the domain as part of the image capture so that is expected.