We currently utilize WDS to deploy our images.
- We are using a volume license
To perform security hardening, we have to make a number of registry changes, which I don't want to lose
I perform a clean up after customizing my OS - delete WindowsUpdate folder from registry, insert a "RunOnce" regkey that runs a VBS to name the machine based on the last 7 digits of the serial number, run a powershell script to clear event logs and then capture and image using MDT
From my previous experience, sysprep has always messed up my reg key changes as well as forced the restored image to go through a full 'Setup is applying system settings' at first boot, which (for a lot of PC techs) takes extremely long to run. Capturing and restoring via MDT has never caused driver issues, has been extremely fast, etc. but just wondering what the long term effects...