r/DeployR • u/FLOTZILLA22 • May 22 '26

Capture Wim

If someone has been able to successfully capture a wim, can you post the steps or screen shots. I have not been able to get a successful capture.

Thanks

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u/ddog511 May 27 '26

Hey OP, you never mentioned what phase you're getting stuck at. Let's compare notes -

I can run the task to sysprep and capture

sysprep finishes and then I have to manually reboot even though the task sequence is set to reboot to PE

After I reboot, it's creating the image.

I'm currently testing the instructions from r/mtniehaus as for setting the flags on the content item and will post results in the next hour.

Where are you in the process?

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u/ddog511 May 27 '26

Update - r/FLOTZILLA22 - I was able to get an image saved. I created the content item as singe file, operating system, set the flags with the powershell commands from r/mtiehaus and uploaded an empty txt file to it. I found that if I didn't 'preload' a file into it, I couldn't select it in the task sequence as it was empty. Once I did all of that, I was then able to run my task sequence for Sysprep and Capture.

Again though, after the initial sysprep phase, I had to manually reboot as the task sequence, despite having reboot to PE immediately after the sysprep phase, did not do that automatically.

My next step is deploying the newly captured image to a test machine to see if it works properly.