[SoCoSA/discuss] Replicating a Win XP install to other computers

[Trevor Benson]

Sysprep actually integrates into Ghost so you can have different hardware to clone to.  You just sysprep every hardware platform and plug them into the interface.  Sysprep is decent, sucks for large deployments though.  Although Microsoft did update it a few times, at least once since I last poked around with it, so they might have added a lot to its feature set.

Trevor

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> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: [SoCoSA/discuss] Replicating a Win XP install to other
> computers
> 
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:46:12PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > clone user accounts when it does the rest of the system. Nor had
> > I ever heard of ghostwalker before. Useful stuff to file away in
> 
> So, I couldn't remember the name of it until now, but the other thing to
> file away is "sysprep".
> 
> That's actually from MS and I think originally designed for OEMs.  You can
> even test out sysprep without ghost.  You run it on the system that's
> going
> to be imaged, it shuts down the system for you (maybe that's an option)
> and
> when you start the system up again (or the same image on another system)
> it
> goes though a lot of the steps you'd normally have during an install.  The
> big advantage over ghostwalker is that you can use one image for a bunch
> of
> different hardware configurations.  I think it's possible to have it ask
> for
> the system to be named and whatnot, too.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302577
> 
> I don't know details, but I hear ghost has the ability to push out
> software
> installs and updates without reimaging systems.  Even if somebody else is
> going to image the systems for you, you might eventually end up needing to
> image them again as new software needs to be pushed out, etc...  Or
> there's
> the SUS server stuff...
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