3. Acme International Inc. is a software solution provider company in Australia. The company has its head office in Sydney. The head office of the company has 40 desktop computers with the Windows 7 operating system. Recently, the company has decided to upgrade all the desktop computers with the Windows 8 operating system. Robin works as the System Administrator in the company. He has been assigned the task to upgrade all the desktop computers with a standard configuration within the next seven days. He plans to configure a standardized image to deploy Windows 8 on all the desktop computers. Therefore, he wants to create an image of an existing Windows 8 desktop computer by using the imaging process. What should Robin do to accomplish the preceding task?

1. Create Windows PE boot media.
2. Run sysprep on the reference computer.
3. Boot the virtual machine with Windows PE.
4. Establish connection with the network share.
5. Capture the image by using the Capture-Image command.

Task 1. create window PE Boot Madia.

1. Switch to the EBDD_SRV1 virtual machine.
2. press the windows key.
3. Type Deployment and Imaging Tool Environment, and then press the enter key. the Administrator: Deployment
   and Imaging Tools Environment window is displayed.
4. type copype amd64 c:\WinPE_amd64, and then press the enter key. After a few moments, the Success message is displayrd.
5. Type makewinpemedia /iso c:\WinPE_amd64 c:\WinPE_amd64\WinPe_amd64.iso, and then press the enter key. wait
   for success mecess of the command.
6. press the windows key.
7. type computer.
8. Right-click the computer tile, and then select the Map network drive icon.
9. the Map Network Drive dialog box is displayed.
10. type \\172.16.0.200\ISO in the Folder combo box.
11. click the finish button. the windows security dialog box is displayed.
12. type the user name and password of the host computer.
13. click the ok button.
14. close the ISO (172.16.0.200)(Z:) and computer windows.
15. switch to the command prompt window.

Task 2. Running Sysprep on the reference computer.

1. Switch to the EBDD_CL1_Win8 virtual machine.
2. press the windows key. the Start screen is displayed.
3. Type cmd, and then press the Enter key. the Administrator: command prompt window is displayed.
4. type CD C:/Windows/ System32/shutdown/oobe, and then press the enter key.
5. Type sysprep/generalize/shutdown/oode, and then press the enter key. the sysprep is working message box is
   displayed foe 5-10 minutes. the virtual machine connection window is displayed.

Task 3. Booting the Virtual machine with Windows PE

1. select media DVD drive insert disk in the virtual machine connection window. the open dialog box is displayed.
2. Browse to the D:\EBDD\ISO folder.
3. select the WinPE_amd64.iso file.
4. click the open button.
5. click the start button in the virtual machine connection window.
6. press any key as soon as get the massage, press any key the boot from CD and DVD... the EBDD_CL1_Win8 virtual machine
   starts booting from the winPE_amd64.iso file Once the booting is completed, the command prompt window is displayed,
   Wait till the command prompt displays <X:\windows\sytem32>.

Task 4. Establishing connection with the Network Share.

1. type ipconfig/renew, and then press the enter key. the ip address is assigned from the DHCP server.
2. type net use Z:\\172.16.0.200\iso, and then press the enter key. the enter user name for '172.16.0.200' message is displayed.
3. type the user name of host computer, and then press the enter key. the enter the password for '172.16.0.200' message is displayed.
4. type the password of the host computer, and then press the Enter key. the command successfully message is displayed.

Task 5. Capturing the Image by Using the Capture-Image.

1. Type Dism/captuer-ImageFile:Z:\Win8_64.win/CaptureDirD:\/name:"My Windows 8 Partition", and then press the Enter key. After 20-25 minutes, the The
   operation completed successfully message is displayed.
2. type exit, and then press the Enter key. the EBDD_CL1_Win8 virtual machine starts.
3. Sign out and revert all the virtual machines.