Similar to removing the base language in install. You can add drivers to ensure Windows can successfully boot for the first time. Make sure that you add your driver to the right image:. The following shows how to add drivers in various ways. If your hardware doesn't require any additional drivers, you don't have to add any. If you're creating several devices with identical hardware configurations, you can speed up installation time and first boot-up time by maintaining driver configurations when capturing a Windows image.
Add a single driver that includes an. In this example, we're using a driver named media1. This adds all. Some driver packages include multiple. During installation, each. If you added drivers to your Windows image, you should also add them to your WinRE image. Adding drivers to your recovery image ensures they are available during recovery scenarios. Adding drivers to a WinRE image is the same process as adding drivers to a regular Windows image.
While your image is mounted, you can add Windows updates. The process is similar to the one we used to add drivers earlier. Get a Windows update package. Extract the. Make sure that your update matches the architecture of the image you are working with. Each package is typically a new KB that increases the build revision number of Windows.
Review the resulting list of packages and verify that the list contains the package. You have to apply cumulative updates to your WinRE image in addition to your Windows image.
Because updates are cumulative, when a new update is installed, old updates can be removed. The WinRE optimization that we cover later in the lab will remove unnecessary updates which will keep the WinRE image from growing in size.
This section covers working with Apps, including reinstalling inbox apps after updates, how to add Microsoft Store apps, and how to add Microsoft Office. This section continues to use your mounted Windows image. If your image isn't still mounted, mount it. Reminder : Install apps only after you have installed languages and updates, in that order.
Now that you've added languages and updates to your image, you have to reinstall the apps that come with Windows. This makes sure that the apps will work and include the languages you have added to your image. Whichever you are using, we'll refer to it as the App update OPK in the following steps.
This command will only work when run against an offline image:. Follow the instructions in the latest Office OEM Preinstallation guide for instructions to learn which Office version to preinstall, and how to install it.
Features on Demand are features that you can choose to preinstall. You can see a list of available FODs, and recommendations for preinstallation here. NET framework capability name. Start layout customizations are configured with LayoutModification. See Customize the Windows 11 Start menu. The section at the top of the Start menu is called the Pinned section. This section consists of pins arranged in a grid. The items in this section are a subset of all the apps installed on the PC; not all installed apps are included in this section by default.
The number of rows and items in this view are consistent across device panel sizes. While the initial view of this section displays 18 items, a user can use the pagination control to move through pages of additional pins. The items in this section are a combination of Microsoft-defined apps, dynamically delivered apps, and OEM-configured items. After setting up their PC, users can add, move, or remove pins in this this section.
If you pin fewer than four items in either of these sections, other Microsoft-defined apps will slide over to fill the space to maintain the same order.
Any array elements beyond the first four will be ignored. An item can only appear in the Pinned section once. It's not possible to pin an app in more than one location in this section, whether on the same page or on different pages.
This is the section below the "Pinned" section. On first boot, the Get Started app from Microsoft will be pre-populated in this location. An OEM can also pre-populate the section with a welcome or first run experience app that will stay pinned for up to seven days unless a customer removes it. Available customizations : One item in this section. Paste the following empty LayoutModification. To pin a web link to the Start menu, you'll need to have both LayoutModification.
Web links use both LayoutModification. Each web link that's specified in LayoutModification. Your exported Start layout will contain SecondaryTile elements for each of the web links you've configured. You'll add these to your LayoutModification.
Add this tile to LayoutModification. Here's what it looks like, using the above example, to pin the web link to the bottom of the "Pinned" section:. You can pin additional items to the Start menu. Here's an example of a LayoutModification. Copy your LayoutModification. If this folder already contains layoutmodification files, replace the existing file s with the new one s ;.
You can pin up to three items to the Taskbar. To pin Taskbar items, you need to create a custom TaskbarLayoutModification. See Customize the Windows 11 Taskbar. Below is an empty Taskbar layout file. Copy the contents into a file called TaskbarLayoutModification. We recommend using the same shortcut. Some classic Windows applications are now packaged differently than they were in previous versions of Windows.
See Notepad and Paint to learn more. Add a UWP app. Later in Audit more, we'll add a registry key to define where the TaskbarLayoutModification is saved. If the license terms are included, the OEM must include a version of the license terms in each language that is preinstalled onto the PC.
A license term text must be an. See OEM license terms for more information on license files. To begin adding license terms, you'll have to create folders for your license files, and then configure OOBE to show the license on first boot.
Do this step for each language pack that's in the Windows image. Note: Please see this link to see complete list of language decimal identifiers of corresponding languages. Create a license terms. For example: Move the English agreement. Open a text editor and create. Save the terms to the same folders as the.
The names of the EULA files should be identical, except for the extension. Create an oobe. Windows will automatically find the accompanying. Below is a sample oobe. Copy oobe. For example: Copy oobe. To add the German agreement, copy oobe. Now each language folder has an oobe. Create an csup. This file must include the date that the image was created, in the form of 'MM-DD-YYYY', with no other characters, on a single line at the top of the file.
This command will create the file:. Answer files or Unattend files can be used to modify Windows settings in your images during Setup.
Answer files allow you specify various setup options, including how to partition disks, the location of the Windows image to install, and the product key to apply. Values that apply to the Windows installation, such as the names of user accounts, display settings, and Internet Explorer Favorites can also be specified.
The answer file for Setup is typically called Unattend. Unattend files include several sections, each of which are processed at different times throughout the Windows installation process. These phases are called configuration passes. Here are the most often-used passes:. A full list of answer file settings also known as Unattend settings is in the Unattended Windows Setup reference.
Make sure that your answer settings include the required settings as outlined in the OEM Policy Document. Catalog files. The catalog file appears in the Windows Image pane. Windows SIM lists the configurable components and packages in that image. In this section, we'll show you how to create an answer file that can configure settings when you deploy your Windows image. Before you start, create a folder called Panther in your mounted Windows image.
Windows will automatically look in this folder for an answer file. Create a bit color image with a maximum size of x pixels. Using the same unattend. Determine available editions by running the following command to determine what images you can upgrade the image to:. In recovery scenarios, Windows doesn't automatically save settings created through with answer files, Windows Start Menu customizations created with LayoutModification.
Troubleshoot: If you cannot see winre. Based on the size of the new winre. The amount of free space left is after you copy winre. See the below disk partition rules for more information. Where C is the drive letter of the drive that contains the image. This process may take several minutes. Finish optimizing your image by exporting the image.
During the export process, DISM removes files that were superseded and the image will have a reduced file size. Export the Windows image into a new image file:. You now have a customized Windows image that you can deploy to other PCs. In the next section, we'll show you how to deploy the image to your reference PC, make online changes, and then finalize the Windows image to get it ready for final deployment.
In this section we'll deploy an image to a PC so that it can be customized in Audit mode. Before you start this section:. Make sure the sample scripts are in the Deployment folder on your USB drive. Run a script to create partitions and apply your image. We'll use applyimage. This script and the subscripts it calls must be placed in the same subfolder. You can update these scripts to change the partition sizes as you desire.
If you're going to be capturing and deploying your final image as an FFU, choose the options to not configure recovery. This allows you to expand the Windows partition, if needed, after you apply your FFU. You can configure recovery after you expand the Windows partition. Only use compact OS on Flash drive based devices as compact OS performance is heavily dependent on the storage device capabilities. Please reference Compact OS for more information.
The PC should boot into Windows Audit mode based on the settings of the unattend file we created earlier. If you're not using an unattend. Add the following registry key to define the location for the TaskbarLayoutModification. You can use audit mode to customize Windows using the familiar Windows environment.
In audit mode, you can add Windows desktop applications, change system settings, add data, and run scripts. To make sure your audit mode changes are included in the recovery image, you'll need to capture these changes into a provisioning package using ScanState. This package gets used by the system recovery tools to restore your changes if things go wrong. You can optionally save drive space by running the applications directly from the compressed recovery files; this is known as single-instancing.
If you want to capture the changes in an image and apply it to other devices, you'll need to use Sysprep to generalize the image. We don't recommend connecting your PC to the internet during manufacturing, and also don't recommend isntalling updates from Windows Update in audit mode because it will likely generate an error during sysprep.
Earlier in the lab, we upgraded the edition from Windows Home to Windows Professional. Verify this change:. Through Windows and the Microsoft Store, you have tremendous opportunities for brand and device differentiation, revenue creation, and customer access. Microsoft Store apps are at the center of the Windows experience. As an OEM, you can provide an engaging customer experience and increase brand loyalty by providing a great set of value-added software and services along with the high-quality hardware that you build.
Push-button reset, is a built-in recovery tool which allows users to recover the OS while preserving their data and important customizations, without having to back-up their data in advance. It reduces the need for custom recovery applications by providing users with more recovery options and the ability to fix their own PCs with confidence.
In this section, you'll create a configuration file that will restore files and registry keys during Push-button reset. Create a migration XML file used to restore registry values manually entered during manufacturing process. Copy and paste the following xml into Notepad. For Push Button Reset to work properly, packages have to be. Make sure that copies of you unattend. During the deployment winre. Before capturing a final image, the backup winre. In this section, we'll use sysprep.
We'll show you how to finalize and capture a factory image for mass deployment. To start this section, make sure your reference machine is shutdown after running sysprep in the previous section.
You won't be able to capture a stable and generalized image if any of the configuration passes have completed. If either of those passes have completed, you'll need To generalize the image again.
In Audit mode, run the Sysprep command from above. Make sure that the USB has a higher boot priority than the internal hard drive. Note what letter it is has been assigned under the "Ltr" column Example: C. This is the USB key's drive letter. Only do this step if you are deploying to a device with limited storage. Single instancing impacts the launch performance of some desktop applications.
Well, at least we got the word out and folks can get there from here a lot easier now! I'm dying to use a flash drive and as I understand it that version I think PE1.
I'm also a registered partner and can hardly wait for the subscription release that is supposed to have that OPK, due out this month. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. MSFN is made available via donations, subscriptions and advertising revenue.
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Recommended Posts. DarkShadows Posted September 22, Posted September 22, edited. While unopened packs can be distributed to other system builders, they are not intended for end-users. If an end-user opens the pack, they are bound by the break-the-seal agreement which requires them to preinstall the product using the OPK, support the product, and other requirements not appropriate for an end-user who does not have the skills and technical knowledge of a system builder.
An exception to this is when the end-user is actually assembling their own PC, in which case, that end user is considered a system builder as well, under the definition in the OEM system builder license agreement. Let not the next person have to suffer the same again!
Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Kelsenellenelvian Posted September 22, Posted September 22, Thanks but I already have gotten mine. Posted September 28, Sorry, but it still asks for it.
Posted October 5, Unless you are a partner, i dont think you can register on the oem site. Posted October 6, I had to use my partner credentials to download. Thanks for the link and info tho.
Alanoll Posted October 6, Posted October 7, DarkShadows Posted October 7, It isn't like them to have a download like OPK that is not password protected.
