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

[Trevor Benson]

Forgot to mention, sysprep is also meant to tie into RIS, windows Remote Installation Services.  Which can also be used, I just don’t see any large deployments do it though.

Trevor

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> 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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> > 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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