Sysprep clarification

[Guest]

Just to clarify - sysprep "re-packages" and removes the SID from a master
image, nothing more - correct?

To actually create the image you would run RIPREP.

Is this right?

 

[Hunter01]

Just to clarify - sysprep "re-packages" and removes the SID from a master
image, nothing more - correct?

To actually create the image you would run RIPREP.

Is this right?

Incorrect, Sysprep changes the SID, removes all your hardware
dependencies (which means you need to point it to directories with all
your required drivers in cat/inf format), mangles your customisations
and if you're using SP2 it blats away your default user profile and
re-creates it from the local administrator profile.

Unless you have need of an image that will work on multiple hardware
platforms go to sysinternals and get their freeware tool for changing
SID's, that tool wont do anything to the hardware, customisations or
anything else, it'll just change the SID, and takes a fraction of the
time that sysprep takes.