[GLLUG] OT: Ghost 7.5 and domain

[Brad Fears]

M$ makes it for NT/2K/XP for "preparing" machines for deployment.  It's
designed to take care of things like changing the computer name, joining
a domain, changing the SID, etc.

In most cases, it is installed on a machine right before you create an
image of it, then it's the first thing to run when the image is deployed
to new machines.

It can be flaky once in awhile (go figure), and I haven't had much luck
with it on XP yet, but it works rather well on Win2k.

--Brad Fears

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:24, Brian Hoort wrote:
> 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" :)
> 
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