Re: Imagining/Cloning Desktops

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pitsnake wrote:
Shenan Stanley wrote:
Jeff Grossman wrote:
My computer is switching from Macs to PC's. We purchased about 150
HP desktops, laptops, and servers for the company. I want to setup
one of the desktops, laptops, and servers and image the drive after
using SysPrep so I can easily copy the image over to the over
computers. I purchased Ghost 10.0, but realized I cannot create an
image while booting up from the CD. How do companies handle
creating these images and copying them over to the new machines?

Any help you can offer me will be greatly appreciated.

Networks..
Pushing the images in a variety of ways.

By CD/DVD...
http://unattended.msfn.org/

By network...
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

Your other choice might be to create a universal image - but I think you
would get more flexibility with an unattended installation.

http://www.leinss.com/uniimg.html
(See the WinXP Blog addition - imaging with universal image)

http://www.gc.peachnet.edu/www/wbeck/W2KXP.htm#Master
(More on building and ghosting a master image)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Shenan,

This is an annoyance question, not a functionality issue.

I have no problem creating working images, sysprepping, etc. However
there is one annoyance that I haven't found a resolution to yet. Our
laptops have the annoyance of constantly going into Sleep mode. And HP
laptops have a habit of not wanting to wakeup from Sleep mode without
taking the battery out and disconnecting AC power supply. Anyway, I
set the power options the way I want them to disable Standby and Sleep
mode before I copy the profile to Default User and sysprep, however
after the computer comes back up and creates new local SID's, finishes
installing drivers, etc. The power options are reverted back to the
annoying default settings. I don't mind setting them back but I have a
desktop team that doesn't always remember to check this before giving
the laptop to the end user and it always ends up being a support call
that wastes someones time fixing something that we should be able to
package.

Do you know of a regedit or something I can do to keep the specified
power options that were set before the sysprep strips them back to
default?

Anyone who has any suggestions I will try them..

Thanks,

Mike, MCSE

Oh and by the way... I run Sysprep with Mini-Setup and Reseal option
only.
and my Sysprep.inf is setup to auto-join the computer to the domain.

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