About the OS Image Capture Tool

The HPCA OS Image Capture tool performs the following tasks:

  1. Collects and stores information (including hardware and OS information capabilities) about the reference machine.
  2. Executes the exit points that are available for your use as needed. PRE.CMD is executed before the Image Preparation Wizard starts SysPrep to seal the image. POST.CMD is executed after Sysprep has sealed the image. See Image Preparation Wizard Exit Points for details.

    Note: Image Capture exit points are only supported for ImageX and Windows Setup capture types

  3. Runs Microsoft Sysprep.
  4. Restarts the reference machine into the Service OS (booted from the appropriate media). The Service OS runs to collect the image and its associated files.
  5. Creates and copies files to the following directory on the HPCA server:

    <InstallDir>\Data\OSManagerServer\upload

    The files uploaded are:

Note: The OS Image Capture tool requires the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 (or later), which is available at the Microsoft download center:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

To determine which version of the .NET Framework is present on the reference machine, list the folders in the following directory:

%SYSTEMROOT%/Microsoft.NET/Framework


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