You need to create a separate task sequence that is designed for creating an
image for duplicating. This is similar to giving an OEM an image to apply to
computers before being sent to the your end user. You need to enable MDT
integration or just do it with MDT. I like using pure MDT because it's a
little cleaner. Once you have created the image you'll capture it. You can
then apply that image to a hard drive. A final MDT process will run on first
boot of the computer. Here you can run LTI/ZTI processes such as set
computer name, join domain, etc.

 

Take a look at these. It's more work but the better way. Happy imaging.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alex_semi/archive/2011/01/18/creating-faster-oem-ima
ges-with-osd-and-mdt.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee430892.aspx

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Marcum, John
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:12 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions

 

The CM client will detect the hardware change and generate a new GUID. Of
course that's gonna foul things up in the database because there will be
duplicate records for the machines for a little while. 

 

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller, Todd
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:50 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ;
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions

 

Yeah, I dunno about this.  The GUID and MAC addresses will be new, but the
computer will have an established SCCM account (and McAfee EPO and any other
managementy type IDs or licensed software that gloms on to the GUID) that
will get all fouled up.  Maybe - best case, you would just end up with a
bunch of duplicate system objects in SCCM that would clean themselves out
over a few weeks.  An old obsolete record from when the computer was in
chassis A and then a new object for the same name in Chassis B.

 

I am not sure what happens to your Windows license when it activates in one
hardware and then finds itself in another machine - certainly the hardware
GUID is going to change.  Windows license sometimes gets lost when you swap
a processor - let alone the whole system.  Would you have to go through a
rearm process or will Windows reactivate on the new hardware automatically ?
I dunno.  I'd think to the Windows licensing service this would look similar
to piracy.  (I'm not suggesting that it is piracy or illegal - clearly it is
not.  I just mean that to the automated systems it is going to look like you
are licensing in one spot and then putting that Windows license into one or
more new computers)

 

 

Maybe if you ran a sysprep on the computer after imaging and before placing
it in the new computer - that might work..

 

This sounds like a mess to me.

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:30 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ;
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Imaging Questions

 

A better solution IMO would be to deliver the machine in which the drive was
imaged to the user, remove their computer and recycle it. At the VERY least
you are going to have to rename each machines (assuming your TS doesn't
prompt for a computer name). Once the client sees that it's in a new machine
it's going to generate a new unique ID and this is all probably going to
wreak havoc on CM for a day or so.

 

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John Marcum
Sr. Desktop Architect

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barnes,Chris
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:11 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ;
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: [MDT-OSD] Imaging Questions

 

Hey guys, I have a remote site that is wanting to deviate a bit from our
standard imaging setup. 

 

They have 2012R2 Secondary site / DP local to them, using PXE, with the TS
advertised to the Unknown Computers collection. 

 

They have a bunch of machines that they want to re-image from XP to 7 that
are all the same model. What they want to do is to buy new hard drives,
image that drive, take the drive out of that computer and put it in the
destination computer. They then want to re-use the initial chassis to
re-image another drive, and so on. 

 

To keep the TS available for unknown computers they will need to delete the
newly registered client out of SCCM after each image, right? The client
should re-register itself with the new MAC, I assume. 

 

I am not a big fan of this, but I may not have a choice in supporting it. I
am trying to think of any issues that I may come up against that I will need
to solve. Can anyone think of anything that might be a show stopper, or that
I may need to watch out for?

 

 

 

 

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