1) install ADK for WIndows 8.1
Download ADK from : http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=39982
2) Install MDT 2013
Download MDT from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40796
3) Create a Deployment Share
Enter the place for the Deployment Share
Click Next
Enter the Deployment Share name
Click Next
Enter the Deployment Share discription
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
4) Setup Deployment Share
Follow this step by step
4a) Create OS
Create a folder for the OS in MDT
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
Mount OS ISO
Import OS
Click Next
Enter the drive letter that the OS ISO is mounted on
Click Next
Change name
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
4b) Create Task Sequence for Server Template
Create a Task Sequence Folder
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
Create Server template Task Sequence
Give a unik Task Sequence ID
Give a Task Sequence Name
Click Next
Choose “Standard Server Task Sequence”
Click Next
Choose Operating System
Click Next
Click Next
Enter Organization
Click Next
Enter a Admin Password or choose “Do not specify an Administrator password at this time”
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
Edit Server template Task Sequence
Enable Windows update by removing the “DIsable this Step”
Add “Install Roles and Features” For the server OS
Create a folder for Cleanup Image – for cleaning up the image for installed patches.
Create 3 steps:
- Restart Computer
- Run Command Line : DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
- Restart Computer
5) Create a MDT “Media Share”
Create a folder on your disk fx. “D:\ServerTemplate_ISO”
Enter the path for your Media Folder
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
Enter properties for the Media Share
Change the content of Rules to:
[Settings]
Priority=Default
[Default]
_SMSTSORGNAME=osddeployment.dk
OSInstall=Y
SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES
SkipAdminPassword=YES
SkipProductKey=YES
SkipComputerName=YES
SkipDomainMembership=YES
SkipUserData=YES
UserDataLocation=AUTO
SkipLocaleSelection=YES
SkipTaskSequence=NO
DeploymentType=NEWCOMPUTER
SkipTimeZone=YES
SkipApplications=YES
SkipBitLocker=YES
SkipSummary=YES
SkipBDDWelcome=YES
SkipCapture=YES
ApplyGPOPack=NO
SkipRoles=NO
FinishAction=SHUTDOWN
SkipFinalSummary=NO
UILanguage=0409:00000409
InputLocale=0409:00000409
SystemLocale=0409:00000409
UserLocale=0409:00000409
KeyboardLocale=0406:00000406
DoNotCreateExtraPartition = YES
TimeZone=105
TimeZoneName=Romance Standard Time
JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP
And Change the Bootstrap.ini
SkipBDDWelcome=YES
Update the Media Content
Click Finish
Now your are ready to boot on the ISO you just created for creating a server template !
Create a VM – Start the VM
Select the Server Template Task Sequence
Click Next
Select Windows Roles and Features if you need it in your template
Click Next
The automated process for building a Server Template is now started and when the VM shuts down the template is ready!!!