Sysprep Questions-any takers?

[jms504]

Some sysprep questions..any and all help is appreciated.
A. Is it necessary to run Setupmgr prior to sysprep?
B. Are there any options to disable the windows setup part that forces
you to create a new user during setup post reboot of a newly reimaged
machine
C. In Setupmgr, how do i get the admin name and password to save, this
didnt work for me
D. What does minisetup do?

 

[Mats]

A: no
B: our XP pro:s doesn't do this sso it is either poosible or dependent on XP
version
D: among other things it sets new uniqe sid:s, resets the PNP database and
reinstalls pnp hardware

 

[jms504]

Thanks!

 

[jms504]

What i need to know at this point is if i just run sysprep with the pnp
and mass storage switches, will setup indefinitely run on restart on
the system with the new image, or can i tell it somehow to just go into
windows and not prompt for ANY info?

 

[jms504]

To add..basically..our backup system is ghost.
We apply the ghost image and the system works.
We now need to use sysprep because we're imaging computers of 3
different models.

Basically all i want sysprep to do prep the system for universal
imaging, i would rather NOT spend any extra time going through a setup
wizard. We have 50 machines to blow out and reimage in a small time
period so going through all that setup wizard stuff would take from our
time efficiency.

 

[jms504]

Alright..my progress so far..
Create sysprep.inf with setupmgr.

Select sysprep mode
not unattended
pop in admin name, pw

add buildmassstorage section stuff to sysprep.inf

run sysprep -bmsd

run sysprep -pnp -noreboot

run the factory utility via the button
check mini
run reseal

reboot and re-image

 

[jms504]

revision:

On the computer that the image will be extracted from
1. Remove all hardware specific items from model system
a. Change disk controllers to default, anything you cant select
default with, remove
b. Modem, sound card, video card(change to standard vga),
Ethernet card

2. Copy the Sysprep Files to C:\Sysprep
3. Run Setupmgr
a. Sysprep mode
b. NOT unattended mode
c. Enter various info such as admin pw, owner name and
organization
4. edit sysprep.ini
a. add ( at the bottom):
[Sysprep]
BuildMassStorageSection=yes

[SysprepMassStorage]

5. run sysprep -bmsd

6. run sysprep
a. Change shutdown mode to quit
b. Click factory

7. run sysprep -pnp -activated
a. change shutdown mode to shut down
b. Click Reseal
c. System will shut down

8. Connect external fdd and insert ghost boot disk
a. Start ghost server
b. Take image

I think that covers it!