Is sysprep required for Windows Server 2003 AD?

From: "Rob" <raungst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:52:39 -0400

We have several hundred Windows XP systems in a Novell environment.
I want to create an Active Directory Domain and add them to it.
All of the workstations were cloned without sysprep.
If I run sysprep on one of these workstations, will it keep all of my user
account data etc...?
If I have a local account, what will happen to it when a domain account has
the same name?

Do we have to go through all of this or just join these workstations to the
domain without syspreping them now?

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Thanks,

Robert V. Aungst
Network Support Specialist

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