Re: Sysprep and User account settings
- From: John Adair Jr <JohnAdairJr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 06:10:02 -0700
I'll run it again today and try and give a detailed blow by blow. Hope the
weekend was great, but not so great that you are fuzzy this morning. :)
"Hunter01" wrote:
John Adair Jr wrote:.
"Hunter01" wrote:
If it's all the same hardware bin sysprep, just ghost away and all will
be well, sysprep is excellent for "one image fits all hardware" but a
complete waste of time if all platforms are the same. If it's different
hardware and you have to use sysprep for that reason, remember that the
"local admin" account will replace the default profile as soon as you
sysprep.
Unfortunately the systemsvary from site to site. They are the unused step
children of computers.
So it looks like I need to use sysprep for this reason....
Yes, you most definitely will if you want a single image across the
board. In that case going back to your initial problem what exactly is
happening??? For starters the default user profile will be set by the
local administrator profile, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided
they didn't trust us any more to have the intelligence to create our own
default user profiles and as of SP2 decided they'd just overwrite
anything we set with the local administrator profile whenever sysprep is
run, so perhaps this is part of your problem?
I work in a domain environment so can't tell you much about "the Shared
Computer toolkit" as I don't use it, but I would hazard a guess that if
you were to log into the machine with the generic account prior to
sysprepping the machine, and setting everything the way you like it
under that account, that the settings would most likely stick as opposed
to the profile being generated post image on the first login of that
account from what Microsoft has patched together as your new default
user profile? Can't guarantee that though, we don't set up any
pre-configured profiles, we just work with the devil and use the local
admin profile as our default user profile now despite the stupidity of
that Microsoft "innovation".
Or am I completely out of the ball park and missed what you're asking?
It's the weekend and I had a good pub session last night so things are
still a little hazy! :)
what about SIDS?
WOnt the same image give me the same sids on each system?
Not if you use one of the third party products which are dedicated SID
changing packages, that don't butcher your customisations like Sysprep
tends to do and take a 10th of the time to do their thing. Unfortunately
Sysprep is the ONLY way we've found to create a hardware independent
image, and like yourself we have a lot of different hardware around, so
despite it's many problems and ongoing issues getting all the drivers to
work across the board it's been a godsend for us.
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