I am attempting to capture a Vista image and it fails during the sysprep step. Here is what I did. Computer is in DHCP Installed Vista Enterprise x86 Created user "test" Ran Windows Updates Installed McAfee 8.5i Created Image Capture Media with SCCM 2007 Ran Image Capture Wizard logged in as "test" user that was created in the install Set destination to a network drive that I confirmed I can map to Get an error while it runs sysprep (0X00004005) Do I have to be in audit mode or enable the Administrator account and run the wizard logged in as Administrator? I can't seem to find exactly what that error means.

Did you install the SCCM Agent? It is required to be on the machine being captured otherwise you will get a failure right in the beginning.

I am getting the same error, Has anybody found a solution?

Hi, A couple things: 1. You need to be running as a local administrator on the box to use the capture CD 2. The smsts.log file should contain more information about the error (this will either be in the Administrators temp directory (%temp%), the Windows temp directory (%windir%\temp), or in the ConfigMgr clients log directory (%windir%\system32\ccm\logs) depending on your configuration). 3. If the smsts.log file says that sysprep was started, you will need to look at the sysprep logs for more information. A common mistake is to not copy all files from the deploy.cab file into the sysprep directory on the local machine (you need more than just sysprep.exe). Please let us know what you find. Thanks, -- Brett

Buddy, for vista, no sysprep folder to be created or copied...

Sorry my mistake. For Vista you do not need to extract files from deploy.cab since it is installed by default. If the smsts.log file says that sysprep failed you can check the setupact.log and setuperr.log files in %windir%\system32\sysprep\panther directory for more information.-- Brett

did you find the answer to this? I'm having the same problem.

Have a look here http://blogs.technet.com/b/gborger/archive/2010/10/11/getting-started-creating-a-windows-7-capture-image-using-sccm-osd.aspx and here http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1543-how-can-i-capture-windows-7/