[GLLUG] OT: Ghost 7.5 and domain

Brian Hoort hoortbri@msu.edu
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:24:42 -0400


I've never heard of Sysprep. Will you give a quick overview of who makes 
it/where you get it/what it does?

Thanks!

At 08:38 AM 6/17/2002, you wrote:
>my $0.02...
>
>I am in charge for now of making/tweaking the images we deploy on 700+
>workstations here at MSU CVM. We use norton ghost 7.0 and ZenWorks
>Imaging to do this. I can't say enough about how much of a good idea it
>is to use the Sysprep utility to get these NT/2K/XP boxen to set
>themselves up properly. Plus if you ever get audited by MS (god forbid)
>you can have sysprep prompt the tech/user setting up the machine to
>actually enter "their" license key so that they're not all on the same
>key. I've heard some arguments about whether or not site licensing takes
>care of the key problem. We just enter the key on the side of all of our
>dells and call it ok. Basically.. "Sysprep good" :)