Need help with sysprep.

I'm preparing an image for deployment so our developers can have a windows testing environment on their computers within a VM. I need this to be completely automated for future tasks as well.

I'm having a few issues with joining the domain and changing the computer name though.

Our naming convention needs to be host-win7vm

Eg.

Simon-win7vm

We've developed a way to get the name through cmd so we don't need separate answer files for each computer.

for /f "delims=" %a in ('c:\windows\system32\webfetch.exe websiteurl.php') do @set VMHOST=%a-win7vm

This gets the host name from a website we set up and assigns it to the VMHOST variable and adds -win7vm to the end of the name.

I've tried using WMIC to change the computer name as well but this gives me the "Unexpected switch at this level" error.

for /f "delims=" %a in ('c:\windows\system32\webfetch.exe websiteurl.php') do @wmic computersystem where name="%COMPUTERNAME%" call rename name=%a

Then I need to computer to join the Domain.

This can be done by using NETDOM.

NETDOM join %COMPUTERNAME% /domain:DOMAIN /UserD:USER /passwordD:PASSWORD

However, as far as I understand, sysprep tries to join the domain before setting the computer name.

Is there a way to reverse this?

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