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Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images.
    #23794703 - 11/02/16 02:08 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Hi,
In one of our offices, we have 7 workstations.  Today, one was pulled and the HD was reformatted, updated OS, apps reloaded, settings are perfect :smile:

I want to to basically copy that entire workstation onto a disk and then implement the same image on the other 6 workstations. 

So the end goal is to have 7 workstations that are all completely the same.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I want to make a disk image of the first workstation then implement it onto the other 6.  In my mind it sounds easy but...  I have a feeling that its not :smile:

If anyone can chime in and suggest any disk imaging applications or maybe another solution.  Please let me know.

Thanks a bunch!
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Re: Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images. [Re: Lana]
    #23795172 - 11/02/16 04:57 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Microsoft has systems to do this.  You didn't say what operating system you were using.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825236.aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn621906.aspx


If you prepare the disk like you mentioned then run a utility (sysprep) that will remove some settings, such as the license number then you can apply the image onto other computers with the same hardware and they will run through setup to put in the license number and other things.

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Re: Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images. [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #23795200 - 11/02/16 05:03 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

look up "microsoft deployment toolkit" or microsoft ADK (assessment and deployment kit).


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Re: Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images. [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #23800006 - 11/04/16 08:20 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Thank you.  The OS is Windows 7 SP 1

Lana


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Re: Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images. [Re: Lana]
    #23800047 - 11/04/16 08:34 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I used to work at a company that would sell 100s of computers with the same config to corporations. The engineers would create a drive image. Then the techs would download the image onto the drives.
This was before MS wanted things activated and MS Office had serial numbers. So it was easy.

I also did the sysprep thing on an image for 30 workstations. There was no other software than the OS.

The biggest problem would be changing license numbers, computer name, user names, and any activations. I would not activate anything or enter license numbers until after you put it on the cloned workstations.


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Re: Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images. [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #23801012 - 11/04/16 03:53 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Crazy_Horse,
Thanks.  Great advice!

Lana


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Re: Can anyone confirm my idea on disk images. [Re: Lana]
    #23802385 - 11/05/16 02:26 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

There's some great open source software out there to do exactly this, clonezilla is my favourite.

However since you are using windows, you have to reset the SID on each machine so that no two machines have the same SID. I'm not entirely sure if it's called a SID, but its something similar to that.

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