I want to make something to install windows a little faster but I'm not sure what's the fastest way. I'm walking into a setup that uses a litetouch mdt2013 on pe5 to install a vanilla windows 7x64 that then loads into audit mode and from the unattend it installs either office & av (if it's a desktop) or office & av & fde encryption if it's a laptop (usually I have about 30 different models to work on, so a sql server is up that has all the models in it to query and dism injects some drivers) and then from the end of the unattend, I djoin and setup the user accounts. Problem is, is that it takes around 45 minutes - an hour to load all of that. I'd like to boot to a vhd (easier to modify or install things to versus pe, right?) then use qemu to load parted magic (for disk wiping), along with some quick diagnostic tools (seatools, prime95), use USMT on offline drives, and instead of using mdt ... maybe take snapshots of the base, inject extra drivers using dpinst.. then convert the vhd to wim and then dism it over to the internal drive. I'd probably make HTA's of the complicated-ish code.Currently my base vhd is around 17gb, (I took out MSOCache, but didn't mess with the winsxs backup) .. I'd like to use vhd_compact, but I keep getting diskpart errors. Anyway, any recommendations would help. I don't have a pxe setup or sccm. I feel like while the project sounds a little complicated once it's up it'll save me tons of time.
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