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Well we just have never used sysprep. We have many differant setups with apps and settings and we generally just make an image for a classroom and some for faculty exactly as it needs to be, and image that bad boy, lable it according to the system it is, and put it on the network. All using ghostcast server of course. It nice how we can zap an image to an entire lab and all that needs to be done is rename, reboot, resid reboot, join domain, log on as teacher or student. If only I could automate that further I could just sit back and watch or do other labs. It takes about 30 mins or longer to do all that after a fresh image rollout. I thought sysprep would require me to reenter XP Keys, printers, etc. Also we name our computers specifially by area-room-computerid EX: J-M-205-7800 (Jackson-Main-room205-computerID) Maybe I am missing something with sysprep???

Hey guys I need a bit of help. On a school campus I have computer images created in Ghost for differant types of systems (Dell optiplex 755, Gateway 4500d, etc) Normally when I reimage a class environment of 20+ computers, this is what happens... Mass deploy the image to 20 + workstations using ghost cast server All computers then boot up with the same name. log in as admin Rename the computers one by one Reboot Log back in as admin run newsid.exe Reboot Log in as admin Join domain Reboot Log in as student user Is there any way I can edit one of my ghost images so that I can automate most of this? It sure would be nice to have a lot of auto renames, logins, and sid generations. Any help is greatly apprieciated.

Big fat BUMP!!!