Clean Up your template before Sysprep and Capture a reference image in MDT

When you create a reference image it will in most cases it will be updated with patches. That will make the image bigger and bigger and there fore the deployment of that image will take longer and consume more network resources & unneeded disk space. That can be corrected by getting rid of superseded patches, junk, temp files and much more.

The Solution

Since mdt is the preferred method to create reference images you can download the script, import it as an application and then run the application just before the sysprep and Capture step. The Script works for the following versions of windows: