OK, if you are talking about totally new hardware (and NT!), don't even attempt to ghost, especially a server that is going to be your new PDC. You are going to run into so many problems you won't even be able to count them, especially with drivers being different and all. And are you going to be running Exchange on the new PDC? Don't do it, man. It is not worth the trouble to try and ghost it. Especially when you can build a new server in a day or less. I love ghost and have used it all the time for workstations that have the same hardware, but I would never ghost a server - just too risky and too many potential problems. I prefer to build it from scratch so that I know everything is all correct. Just my .02
James Winzenz, MCSE, A+ Associate Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Shaun Delaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:47 PM To: MSWinNT Discussions Subject: to Ghost or not to Ghost... Afternoon all I have looked through Technet and the Knowledge base but still don't have an adequate answer for the following: We are looking to upgrade our current NT4 SP6a (+ Exchange 5.5) Server Hardware (well totally new machine actually). Can I just Ghost the current production machine and dump that image onto the new server (would this impact on the SID and or current accounts) or is it best to start from scratch and promote to PDC? Thanks Shaun ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
