> I put out a proposal here at the office to get a number of notebooks > and in order to keep them all in the same state, we'd ghost one and > apply the image to the rest. My understanding is that a Windows > license is mapped to a MAC address - is that true? Has anyone done > this before where you'd still have a valid and uncrippled version of > Windows for every unit?
I've never heard of this and I've been imaging PCs since Windows 95. I use Ghost Corporate and image all of our PCs with that. I use the same XP volume product ID on each machine with no problems. Volume licenses do not use activation. You do, however, need to use syspep from Microsoft to avoid having the same SID data on each machine, which will screw things up on a network. Ghost has a similar application called Ghost Walker, but I've never used it. You do need to have a different image for each different set of hardware or Windows will blue screen. I've read of methods to make a single, unified image that will work on different hardware, but I've never gotten around to trying it. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
