Password Persistence; Efs File Limitation; Battery Power Settings For Backups - Lenovo ThinkCentre A62 Deployment Manual

Supported Sysprep multiple drive configurations
Windows PE drive enumeration may be different than the Windows main
operating system enumeration for Primary partitions. If you wish to backup to a
partition other than C:\ Primary, you must set the Backup partition type to
Extended.
Note: Backups will fail when doing a Sysprep backup if the drive letters of the
partitions are changed after running the Sysprep backup.

Password Persistence

The following table shows considerations for deciding whether to use Password
Persistence.
Table 13. Password Persistence considerations
Issue
If a user logs into an old backup with the
current account and password, then none of
the Encrypted File system files and folders
will work because those files were encrypted
against the original account and password,
not the current account and password.
If the user did not exist on backup, then the
user will not have any of their user folders or
files. All Internet Explorer favorites and
application data do not exist.
Deleting the user ID in the current accounts
and passwords will remove the user ID
authentication information from all the
backups.
If a manager or a network administrator
wanted to delete the access of several
ex-employees and wanted to restore to the
base backup to reset the system to remove all
of the employees authentication accounts, the
ex-employees would still have access with
Password Persistence.
When restoring from a local hard drive, the current password will be used when
Password Persistence is selected. When restoring from USB or the network, the
password of the most recent backup will be used.

EFS file limitation

The date and time stamp attributes are not preserved for EFS files restored by the
Rescue and Recovery program, all other files will retain their original date and
time.

Battery power settings for backups

With the corresponding ADM file installed for the Rescue and Recovery program,
if you have the Battery Percent Requirement set in Group Policy at 1% in the
following ADM path: ThinkVantage\Rescue and Recovery\Settings\Backup, and the
system that you are attempting to backup has 1% remaining battery power, set the
following policy to Hide the No Battery user message:
ThinkVantage\Rescue and Recovery\Settings\User Messages
Impact if Password Persistence is enabled
v User will lose Encrypted File System data
v You cannot use Encrypted File System
and Password Persistence together.
v The User ID documents settings are not
set.
v Potential data loss
v User does not have access to data.
v Is not a standard of the Microsoft User
ID maintenance practices and
recommendations.
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