Copies of unsealed images

[Guest]

Hi, I have discovered that a colleague of mine has deployed copies of an
unsealed XP image into the field. I know that this should not happen, but
given that it has happened, can I expect any problems with these cloned XPe
images. All the copies will be communicating on the same subnet, and so will
be able to see each other. All the copies are on identical hardware.
thanks,
John

 

[KM]

John,

Beside some settings they might have undesirably been left from the golden image on cloned devices, you may also be running in to
the famous SID duplication issues.
To see if there is any potential issues because of the same SIDs it is important to understand what network type is set up in the
field. In workgroup environment it may lead to resource access problems.
Also, if you happened to set up NTFS security permissions on some objects (files, reg.hives, keys, etc.) this may also be a problem
to access those simultaneously from multiple cloned images.

Read about the SID duplication problems on sysinternals:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/NewSid.mspx
Or MS KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314828

 

[KM]

Forgot to mentioned. you certainly can fix the problem in the field with the tools like newSID from sysinternals.