JaapB

Retrieving the serialnumber through a script (vbscript, powershell or bat) is not the problem. In XP I would prepare a reference computer put the script/programs to retreive the serialnumber in place and run sysprep. When sysprep completes i start regedit to change the value from key \hklm\system\setup\cmdline from setup to mybatfile.bat. This bat file retrieves the serialnumber, adjust sysprep.inf and starts the mini-setup when a computer is re-imaged. At this moment i make a ghost image which will be used on other computers. The above process worked well in XP, but in Windows 7 its not working. Microsoft changed how sysprep works in Window 7 or even before.

Thanks for your reply. Changing the computername and joining the domain for a single computers is no problem. I already accomplished this by running sysprep with a unattend.xml file created by WSIM. The problem is that the image will be used to deploy around 250 computers. I need a solution which retrieves the serialnumber during re-imaging and changes the computername to "WP-retrieved SERIALNUMBER".

Hi, In WSIM i have made a unattend.xml file which i put on my fresh installed Win7 computer. After that i ran sysprep and made an image with Ghost. Another computer is succesfully re-imaged and joined to the domain without any user interference. So far so good. The problem is that during re-imaging the computername needs to be set to the following format: "WP-COMPUTERSERIALNUMBER" I wanted to use the same method we use with XP (adjust the sysprep.inf/unattend.xml just before running the mini setup) but that does not work in Win7. Any ideas how this can be accomplished (preferably without MDT2010)? JaapB