sysprep/clone issues

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From: "Joe" <[email protected]>

| Cloned several Dell D610 laptops. When I setup the master image all seems to
| be working very well however after cloning via sysprep the wirless is very
| slow, it working but it's just very slow... Anyone ever see anything like
| this before?
|
| TIA
|

You need to PROVE that there is nothing wrong with the wireless networking. I sincerely
doubt that cloning and syspreping an image will affect the bandwidth or performance of a
given network interface.
 
Cloned several Dell D610 laptops. When I setup the master image all seems to
be working very well however after cloning via sysprep the wirless is very
slow, it working but it's just very slow... Anyone ever see anything like
this before?



TIA
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Joe" <[email protected]>

| Cloned several Dell D610 laptops. When I setup the master image all
seems to
| be working very well however after cloning via sysprep the wirless is
very
| slow, it working but it's just very slow... Anyone ever see anything
like
| this before?
|
| TIA
|

You need to PROVE that there is nothing wrong with the wireless
networking. I sincerely
doubt that cloning and syspreping an image will affect the bandwidth or
performance of a
given network interface.
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I kid you not, it works perfect before the clone.
 
From: "Joe" <[email protected]>


| I kid you not, it works perfect before the clone.
|

And you are cloning a Dell D610 and then restoring the image to other Dell D610's ?
 
From: "Joe" <[email protected]>


| I tried it twice, the first time I did a straight clone. I pushed it up to
| the Ghost image server. Then pulled it down and ran a SID changer. Then once
| I was done gave it to the user and that's when it was brought to my
| attention.. then there were a few other issues strange issues so then I
| decided to sysprep them instead of the SID changer. So I just wrote the
| issue of as the SID changer, I never had any issues on Win2000 systems with
| SID change so I just figured it was the SID changer with XP. Normally I
| prefer to sysprep them anyway but they were in a rush so you how that goes..
| now they don't need the systems for a while so I suggested building the
| image from the ground up and using sysprep vs the SID changer. I built a new
| image and installed all the drivers from the DELL resource disk, installed
| the AV, Win updates and tested it on the wireless for 15 -20 minutes and
| all looked good. Then I used the setup manager and created my answer file
| and ran sysprep, fired it up and re-entered my WEP key and connected with
| just about 100% signal strength. connected to the web and the pages loaded,
| but then after a few minutes the pages would load very slow or not load at
| all? One of my coworkers was thinking it's because the pages aren't cached?
|

Very strange indeed...

Out of curiousity (not associated with your problem) what version of Enterprise Ghost are
you using ?
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Joe" <[email protected]>


| I kid you not, it works perfect before the clone.
|

And you are cloning a Dell D610 and then restoring the image to other Dell
D610's ?
Click to expand...


I tried it twice, the first time I did a straight clone. I pushed it up to
the Ghost image server. Then pulled it down and ran a SID changer. Then once
I was done gave it to the user and that's when it was brought to my
attention.. then there were a few other issues strange issues so then I
decided to sysprep them instead of the SID changer. So I just wrote the
issue of as the SID changer, I never had any issues on Win2000 systems with
SID change so I just figured it was the SID changer with XP. Normally I
prefer to sysprep them anyway but they were in a rush so you how that goes..
now they don't need the systems for a while so I suggested building the
image from the ground up and using sysprep vs the SID changer. I built a new
image and installed all the drivers from the DELL resource disk, installed
the AV, Win updates and tested it on the wireless for 15 -20 minutes and
all looked good. Then I used the setup manager and created my answer file
and ran sysprep, fired it up and re-entered my WEP key and connected with
just about 100% signal strength. connected to the web and the pages loaded,
but then after a few minutes the pages would load very slow or not load at
all? One of my coworkers was thinking it's because the pages aren't cached?
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Joe" <[email protected]>


| I tried it twice, the first time I did a straight clone. I pushed it up
to
| the Ghost image server. Then pulled it down and ran a SID changer. Then
once
| I was done gave it to the user and that's when it was brought to my
| attention.. then there were a few other issues strange issues so then I
| decided to sysprep them instead of the SID changer. So I just wrote the
| issue of as the SID changer, I never had any issues on Win2000 systems
with
| SID change so I just figured it was the SID changer with XP. Normally I
| prefer to sysprep them anyway but they were in a rush so you how that
goes..
| now they don't need the systems for a while so I suggested building the
| image from the ground up and using sysprep vs the SID changer. I built a
new
| image and installed all the drivers from the DELL resource disk,
installed
| the AV, Win updates and tested it on the wireless for 15 -20 minutes
and
| all looked good. Then I used the setup manager and created my answer
file
| and ran sysprep, fired it up and re-entered my WEP key and connected
with
| just about 100% signal strength. connected to the web and the pages
loaded,
| but then after a few minutes the pages would load very slow or not load
at
| all? One of my coworkers was thinking it's because the pages aren't
cached?
|

Very strange indeed...

Out of curiousity (not associated with your problem) what version of
Enterprise Ghost are
you using ?
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it's 8.0 or 8.x
 
Joe said:
Cloned several Dell D610 laptops. When I setup the master image all seems
to be working very well however after cloning via sysprep the wirless is
very slow, it working but it's just very slow... Anyone ever see anything
like this before?



TIA
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it's starting to look like a site issue...
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Joe" <[email protected]>


| it's starting to look like a site issue...
|

Please keep the thread updated. I'm interested in the results.
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I didn't what to leave this out there, they were in a hurry to get this
done, it worked when I setup the 18 laptops and when they returned the
wireless router had a loose piece of metal bouncing around inside, plus the
site/portal that they are accessing don't seem to be the best site either.



today I redid the image and before I even sent it to the ghost sever I
connected it to another access point and there were no issues with any
external sites however I noticed it did go south a few times connecting to
our portal. so the end result is this wasn't even a clone and it was
failing on the portal. I think the only real issues now are there cheesy
portal site and cloning XP using the SID changer corrupting the profiles.
Again, I never had any issue with the changing the sids on Win2000 boxes
however XP or "patched XP" don't like it.



Anyway just wanted to say thanks for taking an interest and offering to help
& make it known that this was a bad post.
 
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