Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

Prerequisite

• Download ADK (Assessment and Deployment Kit) from Microsoft
• You have a .wim Image extracted. See here how to do that

Installation

• Open the donwloaded ISO
• Run adksetup
• Select all features available

Starting up

• Open Windows System Image Manager
• Navigate to File > New Answer File
• Click Yes to open a Windows Image now
• Select the Image for the Version of Windows you want to create an answer file

Passes

Pass 1

• UserData
  • navigate to Left Bottom Panel `Windows Image
    • Expand Components
    • Expand amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup_*
    • Right Click UserData and Add Setting to Pass 1
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Click UserData
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel UserData Properties
    • Set AcceptEula to true
• SetupUILanguage
  • Navigate to Left Bottom Panel `Windows Image
    • Expand Components
    • Expand amd64_Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE_neutral
    • Right Click SetupUILanguage and Add Setting to Pass 1
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Click SetupUILanguage
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel SetupUILanguage Properties
    • Set UILanguage to en-US

Pass 7

• OOBE and UserAccounts
  • Navigate to Left Bottom Panel `Windows Image
    • Expand Components
    • Right Click amd64_Microsoft-Windows-International-Core_neutral and Add Setting to Pass 7
    • Expand amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup_*
    • Right Click OOBE and Add Setting to Pass 7
    • Right Click UserAccounts and Add Setting to Pass 7
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Expand OOBE
    • Delete VMModeOptimizations
    • Click OOBE
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel OOOBE Properties
    • Set HideEULAPage to true
    • Set HideOEMRegistrationScreen to true
    • Set HideOnlineAccountScreens to true
    • Set HideWirelessSetupInOOBE to true
    • Set NetworkLocation to Work
    • Set SkipMachineOOBE to true
    • Set SkipUserOOBE to true
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Expand UserAccounts
    • Delete DomainAccounts
    • Click AdministratorPassword
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel AdministratorPassword Properties
    • Set Value to password
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Right Click LocalAccounts and select Insert New Local Account
    • Click the new LocalAccount
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel LocalAccount Properties
    • Set DisplayName to User
    • Set Group to Administrators
    • Set Name to User
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Click password under the new LocalAccount we created
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel Password Properties
    • Set value to `password
  • Navigate to Left Bottom Panel `Windows Image
    • Expand Components
  • Navigate to Middle Top Panel Answer File
    • Click amd64_Microsoft-Windows-International-Core_neutral
  • Navigate to Right Top Panel Microsoft-Windows International-Core Properties
    • Set InputLocale to en-US
    • Set SystemLocale to en-US
    • Set UILanguage to en-US
    • Set UILanguageFallback to en-US
    • Set UserLocale to en-US

Save Answer File

• Navigate to File > Save Answer File As
• Save it

Sysprep

• Copy the Answer File to the cleanup Windows 10 VM on C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep

• Rename it to unattend.xml

• Run sysprep.exe

• System Cleanup Action: Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE)

• Select Generalize

• Shutdown Options: Shutdown

Capture Image

Caution

Do NOT boot on Windows at this point.

• Change boot order of Win 10 VM to boot from Network (PXE).

• Boot from PXE and select Windows 10 Boot

• When you see the language selection, press Shift + F10

• Connect to a network share and capture image with the following commands

  net user Z: \\NASIP\SHARE /user:USERNAME PASSWORD
  Z:\
  cd DIRECTORY
  dism /Capture-Image /ImageFile:Win10-Pro-20H1-Clean.wim /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:"Windows 10 Pro 20H1 Clean"

• Now you can navigate to WDS and add the image.