Hey guys welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today is all about capturing
a smartdeploy reference virtual machine within server 2019 on the last episode I show you
guys how to create a smartdeploy virtual machine, and today is all about capturing it so let's
get started within Hyper-V I created a virtual machine called the BTNHD SD template.
And within there I installed all types of programs I pushed out all the Windows Updates
everything was fully installed, and one of the recommendations on creating a reference
virtual machine is just to shut it down, you don't need to do a sysprep so that's what
I did.
I clicked on start, power, shut down and I shut down the machine, normally once smartdeploy
is up and running, click on reimage devices and we need to click on capture image, it's
going to start loading up and you're going to get the captured wizard Click on Next.
It's going to want you to browse to the virtual disk if you click on Browse is going to automatically
go on inside the smartdeploy reference machines folder.
Now this is the BTNHD reference machine that I created with the guys on the last part when
I created it with VMware Workstation but we're not going to use that.
So I'm going to go inside my C drive VMs and there goes my VHDX file that I just created.
I'm going to select it, hit open.
Click Next.
It's going to start scanning the disk, it's going to start searching for the operating
system, and then boom.
Right.
For this to work correctly do not sysprep that machine, just shut it down normally once
everything is scanned.
Take a look at this, you have an option to use WDS - windows Deployment Services, I'm
not going to actually touch base on that as of yet, so I'm gonna leave everything as the
default and just click on next provide a local administrative account and confirm it you
are able to provide the product key here, but I'm not click Next.
You have two options.
I'm going to pick the default one which is standard image, then click Next.
From here I'm going to click on Browse and it wants to drop this image inside the images
folder within the smartdeploy folder, so I'm definitely going to click on Save.
Give the image a name, give it a description if you want and then click on next and then
hit finish, it's going to start capturing the image, it's going to start processing
it if you want you could actually go inside the images folder and you will see your WIM
file right there.
Again, it takes a while, it took about 25 to 30 minutes for this process to capture
and complete once everything is done, you should get this nice little dialog box saying
the image was captured successfully, just click OK, now all your images within smartdeploy
are actually located within reference machines and you're going to see your reference machine.
From here you are actually able to click on the plus sign and you only have two options
we've actually created a reference machine or import a reference machine.
If you select your reference machine and right click on it, you have a bunch of options,
capture, remove or open the file location or refresh it and that's it guys that is how
we capture your reference image within smartdeploy hopefully you guys enjoy this video make sure
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