MRR Citizenship question

[Charles M]

Microsoft states in their licensing that MRRs are not permitted to give out a restore CD with Citizenship-licensed systems, but they can create a restore partition.

Pretty sure the answer is that it's not a violation, but I wanted to ask if it would be a violation of terms to give out a Clonezilla CD (which is open source) in order to restore from a partition/drive that holds an image of the sysprepped Windows install?

We're testing methods to provide a restore partition. One of our concerns was people infecting their restore partition/drive so we formatted our restore partition with the ext4 file system so Windows doesn't write to it. Then we clone the Windows drive to the ext4 partition using clonezilla (which knows how to handle ext4). The image never sits on a CD, but on a restore partition on a second hard drive.

We're still muddling through this.

Cheers,

Charles

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[Sean Dion]

If you figure out something that works for you AND Microsoft, please let us all know.  It really is too bad that Microsoft doesn’t have a standard solution that all of us could adhere to, you know?  The on-board partition is only as good as the HDD is good.  If that croaks, the partition means nothing.

 

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[Steve Bothwick]

Here is what we were thinking on doing: We have been recycling all our 40 GB SATA drives for some time and thought that we will just install a second drive on all our systems and use the Windows image backup tool to write an image to the second drive. This gives users the option of updating the back up at least until the image and client content exceeds 40 GB.

 

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Microsoft states in their licensing that MRRs are not permitted to give out a restore CD with Citizenship-licensed systems, but they can create a restore partition.

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[chas...@gmail.com]

So our test system worked, but we used 2 hard drives and both the image creation and restoration involved too many steps to make this viable at this point, but I'm convinced we can greatly simplify the process.

In our test system we had an 80GB HDD with Windows 7 and a 40GB ext4 (Linux) HDD. We used clonezilla to make a compressed image (we have 2 partitons on the Win 7 drive) of the Win 7 drive on the ext4 drive.

When we restored it back we were able to boot up the Windows system and start the activation steps... BTW does anyone know how to get out of this without uncleanly shutting down?

I have documented what we did (at work) and will try on Monday to make it available on the list, but at this point it's overly complex. I know clonezilla can make this process a lot simpler, I just need to do it again to catch the long string Clonezilla gives at the start of the cloning and restore.

Cheers,

Charles

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