preparing to image - what account to use when installing apps

[djc]

I have not done this in a while and need a refresher. In the windows 2000
days (which is when I did this often) you used to install the OS, update it,
and install and update all the applications (ms office, act, whatever) while
logged in as 'the' local administrator account. Then you would copy the
local administrator account's user profile over the 'default user' profile
so that everything would be just like you configured it for all new users of
the machine. I believe that this practice was later found to be flawed and
not reccomended. I'll leave out the sysprep and imaging steps as they occur
after the part in question here.

so what do I do now? (for preparing XP sp2)

any input is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Adam Leinss]

I have not done this in a while and need a refresher. In the
windows 2000 days (which is when I did this often) you used to
install the OS, update it, and install and update all the
applications (ms office, act, whatever) while logged in as 'the'
local administrator account. Then you would copy the local
administrator account's user profile over the 'default user'
profile so that everything would be just like you configured it
for all new users of the machine. I believe that this practice was
later found to be flawed and not reccomended. I'll leave out the
sysprep and imaging steps as they occur after the part in question
here.

That's what I do and it works fine. In fact, SP2 automatically copies
the administrator's profile to the default user profile by default
until you install a hotfix.

Still trying to figure out if that was a bug or a feature.

Adam

 

[William Stokes]

I read somewhere that it's better to setup profiles with the same user
credentials as the end users are.

So if your users are Domain Users leven you shoud setup settings as a Domain
User to avoid file security issues. Of course you need an adminstrative
account to run the program setup's .

-Will