: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
Please explain the reasoning here. Running newsid does not constitute
running sysprep.
--Brian
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Yep...
Sysprep just takes care of the base uniquewindows side of
things.
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You
should of course test it anyway, post syprep to ensure.
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Robert Sent: 22 July 2004 15:07To:
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Yep... Sysprep just takes care of the base uniquewindows side
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
Most likely the answer is yes, speaking
from experience in a K-12 setting. What is the specialized
software? Why not roll out the software as an msi file using group
policies?
Robert
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MSI is good for some stuff but not for labs that are
reimaged a few times a week.
-- Jake
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LealiSent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:19 AMTo:
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Yes.
There are no circumstances under which you should not sysprep an image that you
plan to deploy. The only time you should not is if youre using ghost to
*replace* a machine.
--Brian Desmond
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Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
I beg to
differ. Im in a highschool with thousands of machines. I image labs, pcs,
etc all the time. 95% of software is deployed via group policy and MSIs. Havent
had any problems in the past year of doing this.
--Brian Desmond
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Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
I think you can use Unicast instead of
Multicast in the newer versions of Norton ghost. It goes slower but it wont
bog down the network. Also, make sure your hop count is set correctly.
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I concur (from experience) use the
UNICAST option (From the GHOST CAST SERVER - FILE./OTPTIONS) you should be ok.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
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Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
I have word of using sysprep along with Ghost. From
what I have read sysprep is just do the OS and allows for different
configurations. If I am doing a lab that has special software and the same
hardware config, is it not better to just use ghost
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
Yes, just use Ghost and run Sysinternals
NewSID on each pc BEFORE ADDING IT TO THE DOMAIN.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.shtml
Jared Manhat
Systems Administrator
Accutest Laboratories
2235 Route 130
Dayton, NJ 08810
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I have word of using sysprep along with Ghost. From what I have read
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We tend to do them in blocks of max 30 because it's more manageable (and most
rooms don't have more
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
We tend to do them in blocks of max 30 because it's more
manageable (and most rooms don't have more than that many
computers!)
I've done it enough times now to know that although we
shouldn't have to get involved with boot floppies sometimes things
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From: Steve Rochford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I love comments like The result is that as the imaged computers are
powered up
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You got it Steve. I don't know if you've ever done this before, but be prepared to
have a handful of them screw up and need reimaging with a floppy disk. Also, don't
think of doing em all at once. 100 - 150 is enough to saturate your network
When I ghost 30 or 40 of my clients my network comes to a hault.
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?
If your multicasting, network
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance
Things
really slow down when multicasting to a load of computers where I am (all Cisco
2900XL series switches with fiber links to a 4005 series backbone switch). The multicast
slows to a crawl, as does other network traffic.
--Brian Desmond
Jake-
1. You can just delete the old accounts *after* you image the PCs.
2. Ghost can automatically name and join each machine. My suggestion is that
you remotely push the ghost client to all your machines, and then go into
the network settings of each machine in ghost, and change the computer's
1. Netdom can rename workstations remotely without removing/rejoining to
domain.
2. Ghost Console, then netdom.
Or run a script to map mac addresses to client name and ip then run netdom
on each ip.
Or.
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2) Regardless of how you image the computers, using sysprep is the *only*
supported way of using imaged workstations on a network. Look into it if
you haven't used it. I find it quite simple to use and extrememly
effective. The sysprep process can be automated. I typically find it most
useful
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