Hello Dawn,
Use OOBE if your end users are going to be getting the machines.
Audit is used when building the image prior to sending it out to your
end-users.
Once you are done with audit mode, you would run sysprep with OOBE prior to
sending out to your users.
In Audit you are logging in as the default administrator to install items
like drivers, this is more for image creation prep work, not for uniqueness.
In OOBE you would be generating user-specific items, when that user logs
on, inlcuding running Windows Welcome, which will prompt for machine name
as well.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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|> I am still trying to figure out the difference between Audit Mode and
|> OOBE. I have several people telling me Audit and several telling me
|> OOBE. I do not use an unattended answer file. We have volume
|> licensing and in XP it was simple. Create one pc with everything,
|> remove from domain, create image and dump to all the others and add
|> back on domain renaming first.
|> As far as setup goes I'm not calling it at all at least on purpose.
|> My expectations were to run sysprep with generalize in audit mode.
|> Then I was hoping it would come up, I would rename it and add it back
|> on the domain. No luck. The first thing that happens is it says bad
|> password (trying to automatically log on as local admin) Then I retype
|> the password and it logs in and sysprep starts. I tried some
|> troubleshooting and renamed sysprep and after logging in the system
|> error and rebooted. I also tried safe mode and sysprep started.
|> After adding to the domain every administrative user who logs on
|> starts sysprep. Also after adding to the domain the local admin
|> continues to try and log in. To get on the domain you must switch
|> users and select other users.
|> I've restarted fresh and same problem so starting fresh again makes me
|> think I will continue with this proble. I also created an image
|> before syspreping and loaded it on 15 machines. We then ran sysprep
|> after and 8 had the problem mentioned about and 7 worked as expected.
|> Any ideas?
|> Dawn
|> On Aug 16, 9:27 pm, (e-mail address removed) ("Darrell
|> Gorter[MSFT]") wrote:
|> > Hello,
|> > For number one you want to use the /oobe switch rather than the /audit
|> > switch.
|> > For number two, this may depend on how you are calling setup.
|> > Are you running it from the cmd line?
|> > Do you have an entry in the unattended file that calls it?
|> > Have you removed it from the run line?
|> > Thanks,
|> > Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
|> >
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