Image cloning across multiple pc's

Banzai_Joe

Banzai_Joe

Banzai_Joe

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Hi all,

i have to furnish our design studio with 6 shiney new cad/rendering stations. They are to be custom builds either by me or the shop i'm buying from. Either way they will only have the os installed with one generic user profile on at the most.
They are all to be identical in terms of hardware AND software.
Now, do you think its possible to format and install one pc complete, image the system, them put that image onto the other pcs?
Obviously i'd have to change the Windows and Office product keys and re-activate, and any other software that requires product activation also.

Once done, Only then will new user profiles be created,

Aside from that, can anyone foresee any issues with trying it this way? It would save me an awful lot of time as there's 6 to do.

Thanks for any advice. :)
 
J.T said:
You don’t have to change the keys if you have MS Volume licensing (VLK) , but I assume you don't, does make things easier.

If you don’t have any imaging software I recommend Clonzilla which is free or if you don’t mind paying then Acronis. :)
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Win 7 has its own backup feature which allows imaging, so i'm assuming i can use that.
 
Hi again,
right i'd like to give sysprep a trial run on xp pro sp3. I've got the new deploy tool from M$.
Question; am i to understand that it doesn't matter what hardware you pc is using, ie. i want to sysprep a pc that has different mobo, cpu, hdd etc than the one i'm cloning from. This make sense?
Also, when do i create the image? And when i run sysprep and it reboots is that when the image dvd should be in the drive?
Can't seem to find any in depth tuts on the web, only partial ones.

Thanks
 
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