Sysprep & fog
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Hello Everyone,
I had a quick question about syspreping my workstation. I am creating single image for all of my workstations, but what I do is use “windows setup mngr” to create a sysprep.txt file and reseal the process with a “MiniSetup” and “Pre-Activate” so that it can finish up on its own, but as soon as the workstation restarts I take an image of the harddrive.
From there on whenever I want to image a new computer I deploy the image to the respective computer model and the windows setup runs. Has worked great, but has anyone had problems doing it this way?
Even thought I have syspreped my machine and it says that the SID will change once it goes through the installation I want to make sure that on the next workstaion I deploy this image to a different SID# will be generated. Any advice or thoughts will be appriciated.
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That is almost exactly how I’ve imaged our Windows XP machines since we started using fog about 18 months ago. I’ve had no problems.
I’m not sure about the “pre-activated” part. In Setup Manager, we use “fully automated set-up” and choose a workgroup (we [I]do not[/I] join it to a domain). When running Sysprep, we use the mini-setup option and choose reseal. The warning about SIDs can be ignored.
We’ve noticed no issues using the above.
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Do you join after you image them? I use the fog feature to join to AD and it works great, but I just want to make sure that I won’t have any issues with the duplicate SIDs.
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Yes. We join workstations to the domain using FOG after imaging has finished. This works great for us.
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