Even for 6 PCs, it's a good measure to do. The benefits of having a syspreped image allow you to quickly restore an os after a hard drive failure, deploy to dissimilar hardware, for examples. Yes, there are ways to deploy without sysprep by resetting the security identifiers (or SIDs) manually. The mini-setup that runs after you first a syspreped image will either ask you for a pc name, or you can have it generate one for you. The mini-setup after first boot will take about 5 minutes. -Sam
________________________________ From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: sysprep question Hi folks, In my research on sysprep, I've come across conflicting information. I will be cloning xp machines (identical hardware). These machines are all on a domain. Do I need to sysprep before cloning? I'm just doing 6 computers. I've read that I do need to sysprep, and I've read that I don't need to sysprep because the machines are on a domain (Windows 2003 native in my case). Obviously after cloning, I need to go in and change the computer name, so I don't get conflicts (unless, of course, I use sysprep to change the names for me). Thanks for your wisdom in this. Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
