I am currently working on .xmls for imaging on mass deployment. I want to do an unattended join to the domain and also get the drivers in the audit (sysprep) phase. But when I go from audit to OOBE, I do a /generalize to cleanup the drivers I pushed down. [makes overall process a little faster, and the image smaller]
If I do the /generalize command from audit to OOBE, will that remove my [unattended] join to the domain?
If the nic drivers are not installed you should be able to add them to your winpe disk. If the NIC drivers are installed and you set the sections of WAIk PersistAllDeviceInstalls it won't clean them up. Also, the setting of DoNotCleanUpNonPresentDevices will leave any devices you installed but are not connected when you run sysprep. Here are instructions to install nic drivers to offline images using DISM. Might find some useful information here as well. doah.org There are known issues joining a domain in specialize since it joins the domain with a randomly generated name begining with "WIN-" it is noted in numerous technet articles