Windows 7 sysprep

mrbios · 11 Jul 2011 at 13:47

Ev0 said:
Well I guess same as how you would license Exchange, Server etc

Best thing to do is jsut speak to your reselelr/account manager and see what their line is. Might not be right, but it's a start

Seems i'm on to a winner here

the only cost to us is a simple £360 (max) on to our yearly licensing cost, bargain.

As we're already covered by the educational desktop enterprise licensing which covers all of these server and OS CALs: http://www.microsoft.com/calsuites/en/us/products/default.aspx and only £55 per desktop based on full time equivilant rather than the mount of PCs

Ev0 · 11 Jul 2011 at 13:59

mrbios said:
Seems i'm on to a winner here the only cost to us is a simple £360 (max) on to our yearly licensing cost, bargain.

As we're already covered by the educational desktop enterprise licensing which covers all of these server and OS CALs: http://www.microsoft.com/calsuites/en/us/products/default.aspx and only £55 per desktop based on full time equivilant rather than the mount of PCs

Good good, thought if you're on some kind of licensing plan you'd have a cal bundle thrown in there.

They are the most cost effective way to get all the cals, that's how we did it.

anything I don't mind · 13 Jul 2011 at 17:14

What a long week. Finally got it working. I used waik to generate a unattend.xml and prompts for pc name and auto activates with MAK key. Then the pc auto logs in with local admin account and i set up a powershell script that auto adds it to the domain. All works great.

The only problem now is that i would like to restart and then end up with domain login screen. I tried automating it with scripts but no luck. In the end i have a cleanup.cmd file that is on a usb that has to be run and then after the scripted reboot it ends up with a login screen. But i disable the local admin and then does not say press ctrl+alt+del to login, it says administrator was disabled and then you have to click other user and login. Would be nice if i could get it to be ctrl+alt+del to login. here is the cleanup.cmd script.

Code:

powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
powershell e:\UserModify.ps1 -user Administrator -password Yb2asdasd9gbfCL -a d
shutdown -r -t 10 -c "Windows 7 will reboot in 10 seconds..."

del /F C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\import.ps1
del /F C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\unattend.xml
del /F C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\cleanup.cmd

The usermodify.ps1 is a powershell script i found on the net to modify accounts. Works great.

Anyone know of a better way to disable administrator autologin and have it at domain login prompt

BlueMhz · 13 Jul 2011 at 20:42

This should help:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...l/thread/5e723c57-279e-4b44-b6dc-744c4f71a333

SoundsGood · 13 Jul 2011 at 20:52

moss said:
I use this:
http://www.fogproject.org/
To deploy images which are stored on the server itself. A client machine is pxe booted registered with the fog server, the image is deployed, the machine will change its hostname to the name registered in the fog server and then automatically join the domain.

This.

It's really easy to make new images too (w7 or XP), just register, mark for upload, run fogprep.exe & reboot.

anything I don't mind · 13 Jul 2011 at 21:23

I did not use WDS so that restart command will not work. I used sysprep and clonezilla. I ended up just changing a autologin registry value and added to the cleanup.cmd. But i would still like to be able to add the cleanup.cmd to some sort of logout script or something after it finishes. As now we have to run it from a usb stick.

I had Setupcomplete.cmd in the c:\windows\setup\scripts\ try and disable the administrator account but then it would do that before it logged on. I tried setting sleep timers in powershell but it still ran before it logged on. I might take that admin disable command out and try it.

York · 17 Jul 2011 at 14:13

mrbios said:
Seems i'm on to a winner here the only cost to us is a simple £360 (max) on to our yearly licensing cost, bargain.

As we're already covered by the educational desktop enterprise licensing which covers all of these server and OS CALs: http://www.microsoft.com/calsuites/en/us/products/default.aspx and only £55 per desktop based on full time equivilant rather than the mount of PCs

Just to say that if you're looking at the EES licensing agreement, even if you opt for the enterprise CAL desktop pack you can get it much cheaper than £55/FTE. Somewhere around £40/FTE is pretty standard

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Only other two things to license are the SCCM server (around £30) and the System Center Server Management Suite (covers you for all server MLs for all the System Center range as well as giving some of the server products, datacenter licensing is around £20/physical processor for each physical server).