XP Deployment with SYSPREP

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I have yet to get a good solid answer about this, so I hope you guys can
help. We purchase about 35 laptops a month to deploy within our building.
We take one of the machines, build it up with the correct settings and
software and make it our template. I then Ghost it, running SYSPREP first
with the following SYSPREP.INI:

;SetupMgrTag
[Unattended]
InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=d9cd13973a50cfaa73251aa2b4314b9051ff55e5499bb00577550175661f2335
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35

[UserData]
FullName=""
OrgName="XXX"


[SetupMgr]
DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386
DistShare=windist

[Identification]
JoinDomain=UAW-GM

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

I also have the following command line switches to use:

-reseal -mini -activated

When I reboot and/or push that image out to other machines, it sometimes
asks for a reactivation and sometimes it doesn't.

Our goal is to have a solid image, that resets the SID, and doesn't require
activation. We don't want the activation, because we re-image these machines
quite often and thus will eventually have to make the call to activate and
that isn't efficient. Thanks for any help you can provide.
 
Are you using XP Volume Licensing? I believe that's the only legal way to
Sysprep and not need to activate Windows. Additionally, it's different
media from out of the box XP Pro.
 
We use a disk-imaging product (Drive Image) having rejected the volume
install/sysprep route as too complex and too time-consuming.
 
It sounds like you're looking for the -activated switch. Try that or use
-factory and select the Pre-Activated checbox.

Good Luck

Derrek said:
Use Sysprep with the following options and see it it helps...

sysprep -mini -PNP -reseal


MIS OPERATIONS said:
I have yet to get a good solid answer about this, so I hope you guys can
help. We purchase about 35 laptops a month to deploy within our building.
We take one of the machines, build it up with the correct settings and
software and make it our template. I then Ghost it, running SYSPREP first
with the following SYSPREP.INI:

;SetupMgrTag
[Unattended]
InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=d9cd13973a50cfaa73251aa2b4314b9051ff55e5499bb00577550175661f2335
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35

[UserData]
FullName=""
OrgName="XXX"


[SetupMgr]
DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386
DistShare=windist

[Identification]
JoinDomain=UAW-GM

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

I also have the following command line switches to use:

-reseal -mini -activated

When I reboot and/or push that image out to other machines, it sometimes
asks for a reactivation and sometimes it doesn't.

Our goal is to have a solid image, that resets the SID, and doesn't require
activation. We don't want the activation, because we re-image these machines
quite often and thus will eventually have to make the call to activate and
that isn't efficient. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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