- #REMOVE DUPLICATE WINDOWS 10 INSTALLATION DRIVERS#
- #REMOVE DUPLICATE WINDOWS 10 INSTALLATION UPDATE#
Instead of using the Microsoft Store to update your apps, you should sideload updates to your line-of-business apps, provision offline-licensed Microsoft Store for Business apps for all users, or have end-users update their apps by using the Microsoft Store on their destination PCs. This package will not function properly in the sysprep image. The following error appears in the Sysprep log files (which you can find at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther): was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users. Sysprep /generalize requires that all apps are provisioned for all users however, when you update an app from the Microsoft Store, that app becomes tied to the logged in user account. Installing new Microsoft Store apps or updating your existing Microsoft Store apps before generalizing a Windows image will cause Sysprep to fail. If you are using a volume licensing key or a retail product key, you don't have to use SkipRearm because Windows is automatically activated. In previous versions of Windows, you could use the SkipRearm answer file setting to reset the Windows Product Activation clock when running Sysprep. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 or later Refer the following table: Operating System Version After running Sysprep 1001 times, you must recreate your Windows image. You can run Sysprep command up to 1001 times on a single Windows image. Limits on how many times you can run Sysprep
For more information about Sysprep-related Windows unattend components, see the Unattended Windows Setup Reference for Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep. If you're deploying an image to computers that have identical hardware and devices as the original PC, you can keep devices installed on the computer during system generalization by using an unattend file with Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep | PersistAllDeviceInstalls set to true.
#REMOVE DUPLICATE WINDOWS 10 INSTALLATION DRIVERS#
Generalizing a Windows installation uninstalls these configured devices, but doesn't remove device drivers from the PC. When you set up a Windows PC, Windows Setup configures all detected devices. Prevent Sysprep from removing installed devices If a single computer has multiple operating systems, you must run Sysprep on each operating system individually. When you generalize an image, Windows replaces the computer SID only on the operating system volume where you ran Sysprep. Even if you're capturing an image that's going to be deployed to a PC with similar hardware, you still have to generalize the Windows installation to remove unique PC-specific information from a Windows installation, which allows you to safely reuse your image.