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Hello,
I work for a corporation that supports a part of our military. I have a question for the pros here. We are given an image that we install on our computers here. What I'd like to do is customize the image without disturbing much.
The image we have, has accounts that I don't want to lose. So far I've been doing my best to research how Sysprep works. What I did is, I installed the master image to a laptop and installed all the updates, and a few programs that we use. Had to join it to the domain for a few things to run. Then I ran sysprep: I chose oobe with generalize checkbox and shut down option, it ran just fine and shut down. When I restarted the machine to see what I'd be dealing with, I found the expected out of box experience but what I didn't count on is it prompted me for a user name and password, the two accounts that come with the master image were deleted, and the default administrator account was created--which is an account we don't use or even have on our machines.
All I want to do is edit the master image with updates and software after it's installed and sysprep it so that when I use ghost version 15 to take a cold image of it, I've got something that won't create duplicate sids all over our network as the image is slowly deployed to PC's. Is this possible? Should I be using audit mode at some point to accomplish this.
Want to install image on PC, update it with appropriate updates, install some software; prep machine without losing: accounts, drivers, or having an administrator account created--i don't mind if first boot prompts for timezone or PC name. I thought about using command line such as sysprep /generalize with no other option but have no idea yet if that will work or if it's possible.
Oh forgot to mention the OS is windows 7 X86, enterprise edition.
Last edited by Brink; 13 Apr 2012 at 12:13. Reason: Merged