[windows2000] Re: sysprep
- From: "Jonathan Kadoo" <jkadoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:23:53 -0400
Any ideas on where I can get this tool?
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From: bbeckett2000@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:bbeckett2000@xxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:14 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: sysprep
There's also a sidchanger tool out there
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> If you do not run sysprep, all or your machines will have the same=20
> SID. And all of your local admin accounts will look the "same" to=20
> each other... i.e., you may change the password on a local account on=20
> one machine but not the other... but the old password would work=20
> sometimes because the SID of the account is the same.
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> A crappy explanation, but I can't think of a better one.
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> In the future, talk to Dell about loading on your corporate version of
> XP pro, which has a VLK and does not require activation. They can do=20
> it for little or no more money...
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> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
> David Clark Company Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Kadoo [mailto:jkadoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 9:27 AM
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] sysprep
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> I just got a bunch of new dell workstations. I want to create an=20
> image and then put the image on all the workstations. I was just=20
> wondering if I have to sysprep the workstation that I create the image
> from? What are the downsides to not running sysprep first?
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> The reason I ask is that Dell installs Windox xp pro on the=20
> workstations but I am required to activate the machine with MS. I am=20
> trying to avoid the hassles of doing that.
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> Thanks for you help in advance
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> Jonathan
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