Free gold image creator tool

[Nedula]

Looking for a free or cheap way to create a gold image (environment has no standard on imaging) there are about 50 or less PC's all Windows 10.
Wondering if anyone has some suggestions or know of anything that would fit my need.

Thank you all in advance for your support!

 

[Colif]

Is this what you are after? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/create-a-windows-10-reference-image

 

[Nedula]

Is this what you are after? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/create-a-windows-10-reference-image

Will that work being my environment is all non-domain PC's? IT wasn't much of a department before I just start yesterday so there is a lot of things that I want to change but simplifying deployments of machines and downtime from that is near the top of my list.

 

[Colif]

what version of windows 10 is on these PC? If its enterprise you meant to get it from Microsoft via another approach to getting ISO for normal versions - I am not exactly sure how as I haven't ever used it myself.

I think the link I showed was for enterprise set ups

Could you use the normal ISO? click button 2 here but you can't install that any other way except as an update, off DVD or USB so might not be what you want.

 

[USAFRet]

Is this what you are after? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/create-a-windows-10-reference-image

Will that work being my environment is all non-domain PC's? IT wasn't much of a department before I just start yesterday so there is a lot of things that I want to change but simplifying deployments of machines and downtime from that is near the top of my list.

Either the deployment tools from MS, or a paid solution.
Seeing as you have 50 systems...is it worth $10 or $20 each to do this properly?

 

[Nedula]

They're all pro licenses.

examples of paid solutions?

 

[USAFRet]

They're all pro licenses.

examples of paid solutions?

Macrium Reflect has some nice business solutions.
https://www.macrium.com/macrium-reflect-workstation

Imaging, backup, deployment...

 

[James Mason]

The one Colif linked works and is "free" assuming you already are running a proper business environment. I've used it in the past and it works fairly well.

But are all the PCs in your environment the exact same model? If they aren't imaging may be a huge task if you have like 10+ different models of computers and need a separate image for each one.

You may want to look at virtualized desktops, and have all the users use something like Citrix to remote into a "standard image" and have all their files actually stored on the network.