On 1/9/07, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 18:12, Greg Thomas wrote: > I get a new harddrive from Dell, put a CD in, boot, choose the > correct hardware and grab the correct image. 30 minutes later I run > the appropriate diff file, name the machine, and add it to AD. Let > the user login (if they don't know how to set up their email I do so) > and the login script takes care of printer mappings, etc. The only > thing the user is missing at this point is any special apps that they > use. > > GregGreg, Though totally off-topic for an OpenBSD mailing list, there are plenty of issues involved with imaging a MS-Windows system. One of the big ones is duplication of SID's ("System IDentification"). Supposedly there are even some security issues with having identical MS-Windows SID's on the same physical network but it is easy enough to fix the problem: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/NewSid.mspx You should add SID changing to your image install process,
Yep, it's included in the post-install departmental diff scripts.
convert all your desktops to OpenBSD. :-)
Working on it man, working on it. Greg
