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You can then set a task sequence to install that image and give it the drivers for each model you have and it can push it out like Ghost or a cloning machine would but with just the drivers for that model. You then capture that image which runs Sysprep that strips out anything machine unique like identifiers or drivers. You can create a "fat" image which has all your programs installed already and most if not all your configuration done.
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what is the point of the initial reference image? If you are installing everything that isn't "base" Windows 10 during deployment via the MDT menu system (Office, Adobe, drivers, etc) why is a reference image even needed? Why doesn't it just do a basic install of Windows 10 and go from there. Hoping I'm wrong and you fine people can help me get my head around it. But, a dozen a year? Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through. I can see how this would be huge in an enterprise if I had to image hundreds, let alone thousands, of laptops. But I am left thinking this is more complicated and probably over engineered for our needs. I've read the MS documentation, and a great walk through on Petri. download special install packages and drivers and tell MDT to use those to install and configure the OS according to your needs? Do I have that sorta right? It seems like you don't create the image you want? Instead you. Last I knew, you prepared a machine the way you wanted it, imaged it, then configured that image for bare metal, installed that image on the new hardware, ran updates, and viola. That is changing slightly, so in anticipation I started looking into modern imaging procedures. Our organization has been small enough, with modest needs, that simply running OEM with minor GPO tweaks has been perfectly fine for us. It's been a decade since I've had to think about imaging laptops.