More fbreseal strange behavior

From: Robert (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:19:31 -0800

What are your settings for the System Cloning Tool
component? Can you post these here? I have a feeling
that the issues you are seeing have something to do with
the settings of this component, or some other component,
because I have never had any problems like you are seeing
with your image.

Robert

>-----Original Message-----
>I have prepared a target device exactly the way that I
want it, and ran
>
>
>fbreseal.exe -keepall
>
>After a few moments, it comes back with a prompt that it
finished
>sealing and would reboot. Once it rebooted, I shut it
down and imaged
>the device.
>
>I applied the image to a new, but identical device. Upon
booting up,
>the device appeared to be generating new SIDs and
whatever else it
>needs to do after a reseal.
>
>Here's where the strange behavior comes in:
>
>1) Upon full boot, I logged in as Administrator, and I
receive a prompt
>that there is no User data for that account (I don't have
the exact
>message, but I will recreate it later and post it). A new
account is
>created, "Administrator.NSXXYYZZ", where NSXXYYZZ is the
machine name.
>Unfortunately, this account lacks the customization that
I spent hours
>doing by hand, since it was created from the default
profile.
>
>2) I also get a "New Hardware found" dialog that prompts
me to reboot.
>This is the first time that I have seen this on this
hardware - did it
>change with SP2? I have seen several threads that talk
about renaming
>newdev.dll to get rid of this dialog, but I am wondering
if it is a bug
>that has been filed with Microsoft, or is it
considered "Standard
>operation"? It would be very dissappointing if it is. I
have built
>other images with SP2 and this version of components,
without receiving
>this dialog - What component did I add to cause it to
happen?
>
>So I am now left with trying to use a different SID tool,
since I have
>little or no faith in Microsoft's FBRESEAL.EXE. I have
spent 3 days
>sorting out the numerous issues with XPe that
should "Just work" but
>don't when you get into the details.
>
>.
>

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