About Sysprep Imaging - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual

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About Sysprep imaging

About Sysprep imaging
Deployment and migration settings options (continued)
Table 3-1
Step Action
Step 7 Determine what Deployment jobs or tasks run
when an unknown computer performs a PXE boot
using the Initial Deployment option.
Sysprep is the Microsoft utility that prepares computers for Windows deployments.
All Windows platforms after Windows XP include Sysprep files as part of the basic
OS installation.
When you use the Prepare for Image capture task, Deployment Solution
automatically uses the Sysprep files. However, for that task to work on Windows
XP, you must upload its
Sysprep Imaging Configuration option.
When you work with Microsoft domains, each computer must use a unique
Windows SID. SIDs are security IDs that are used with Windows NT and later
operating systems. Before you deploy Windows images, you should remove the
existing SID from a computer to avoid causing network problems. The Prepare
for Image capture task automatically strips the SIDs from each computer using
Sysprep.
You can then create an image using the Create image task and deploy the resulting
image to multiple computers.
Sysprep also disables the built-in administrator account and clears the
administrator password when it prepares a computer for imaging. You might need
to change the password on the client computer before logging on for the first time
after deploying an image.
See "Configuring deployment and migration settings"
file into Deployment Solution using the
deploy.cab
Description
You can set the task
list for a new computer
that boots to the
network.
See "Configuring the
initial deployment
settings" on page 36.
See "About initial
deployment"
on page 36.
on page 29.