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Berniece Leonhardt
A potential dumb question. In the days past I was told that having two machines with same SID was a big issue. Therefore, direct disk clones was never recommended unless u do a sysprep afterwards. Today I am testing Acronis Snap Deploy 5 in hopes of deploying a golden image to some machines. (image contains Windows 10)
Just to be sure, our QA have run rigorous tests with Windows 10, involving involved deployment of Windows 10 system in various combinations (join to domain, change name, using an image of clean machine and of machine which had already been joined to domain, etc.) and all of them were successful without SID change.
As already mentioned by Mark R and other folks, SID#9 does not affect joining domains, WSUS, Kerberos or other security/authentication mechanisms. On the other hand, Windows 10 is proven to be more sensitive to forced SID#9 changes, which affect Windows Store or even a Start Menu.
In short, for physical Windows 10, forced SID#9 change would yield a lot of negative side effects, and zero positives - making the feature simply unnecessary. If SID change is still required due to some software mechanism in the environment - Acronis Snap Deploy supports deployment from Sysprepped images - simply sysprep the master machine with shutdown, create a master image offline and deploy.
Hmmm, these are all valid points. I have inherited a Domain where all of the Windows 10 boxes have the same SID, I can tell you for sure that this is causing me a multitude of issues and WSUS being one of them as I am having to re-register the Windows Update Domain SID on machines by deleting them etc. IMO I would never deploy any environment with the same SID unless it was a mistake.
I did also attempt to change the SID on a Win 10 machine which ultimately failed but this involved attempting to remove all Windows store items, these have now re-populated from Windows Update or from other machines on the network so there is a process there some where, I am still figuring that one out.
One of my duties requires having a variety of computers with a series of preconfigured software suites available for use on fairly short notice. These computers have dissimilar hardware, and there is no automatic updates of any sort (let alone a centralized system.) To solve both the issue of deploying these suites and updating them, I've been attempting to use Acronis True Image. Following various instructions in a Windows 10 VM hosted on macOS via VirtualBox, I:
How is it possible that an .iso boots perfectly fine with VirtualBox, but has no apparent file system and fails to be imaged to any sort of USB drive? How can I create a bootable version this image for use with a "real" computer?
Programs such as isohybrid prepare the image itself such that it simultaneously contains CD (ISO 9660), BIOS (MBR), and UEFI boot code, so that it can be written to any kind of disk without further conversion.
The result is an image whose contents depend on the way you look at it. When written to a CD, the OS will find a regular ISO 9660 filesystem. When the exact same data is written to a USB disk, the OS will find a large "empty" partition and a very small "EFI boot" partition. Example. Example.
Finally, disks do not need to have visible files in order to be bootable. There's a bare minimum needed to make the disc or disk boot, but beyond that, everything is controlled by the disc/k's own bootloader itself. So it doesn't matter that you see a completely empty disc; the bootloader might just be looking for its own data elsewhere.
In your case, it seems very likely that the image is already in some sort of hybrid format; it has just enough of an ISO 9660 filesystem to let firmware find the bootloader, but the remainder of the OS is hidden somewhere else.
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Acronis Snap Deploy Serial Key is a powerful backup and recovery application that will enable the system to restore functional configurations. It is primarily focused on the business environment, providing an efficient and fast way to deploy operational disk images to multiple computers.
Acronis Snap Deploy Full Version actually generates a disk image of the system configuration and then deploys it to other workstations in the same network. It has a built-in wizard that will guide you through each step, making task very easy to perform. Using advanced technology, the software can create directories containing systems, configurations, and installed applications.
With Acronis Snap Deploy License Key, you can also instruct it to generate a bootable disk that can be used to mount a master image or create an image of the host system on a local or remote computer. You can save the output locally or transfer it to a removable drive or network share. You can also manage computer-specific configurations (including computer name, IP address, domain membership, and other settings).
Creating a reference image is important because that image serves as the foundation for the devices in your organization. In this article, you 'll learn how to create a Windows 10 reference image using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). You 'll create a deployment share, configure rules and settings, and import all the applications and operating system files required to build a Windows 10 reference image. After completing the steps outlined in this article, you 'll have a Windows 10 reference image that can be used in your deployment solution.
The reference image described in this guide is designed primarily for deployment to physical devices. However, the reference image is typically created on a virtual platform, before being automatically run through the System Preparation (Sysprep) tool process and captured to a Windows Imaging (WIM) file. The reasons for creating the reference image on a virtual platform are:
With Windows 10, there's no hard requirement to create reference images. However, to reduce the time needed for deployment, you might want to create a reference image that contains a few base applications and all of the latest updates. This section will show you how to create and configure the MDT Build Lab deployment share to create a Windows 10 reference image. Because reference images will be deployed only to virtual machines during the creation process and have specific settings (rules), you should always create a separate deployment share specifically for this process.
In order to read files in the deployment share and write the reference image back to it, you need to assign NTFS and SMB permissions to the MDT Build Account (MDT_BA) for the D:\MDTBuildLab folder
This section will show you how to populate the MDT deployment share with the Windows 10 operating system source files, commonly referred to as setup files, which will be used to create a reference image. Setup files are used during the reference image creation process and are the foundation for the reference image.
Due to the Windows limits on path length, we are purposely keeping the operating system destination directory short, using the folder name W10EX64RTM rather than a more descriptive name like Windows 10 Enterprise x64 RTM.
Sign in as contoso\administrator and copy the content of a Windows 10 Enterprise x64 DVD/ISO to the D:\Downloads\Windows 10 Enterprise x64 folder on MDT01, or just insert the DVD or mount an ISO on MDT01. The following example shows the files copied to the D:\Downloads folder, but you can also choose to import the OS directly from an ISO or DVD.
For the purposes of this lab, we'll leave the MSVC files in the D:\Downloads folder and the Office365 files will be extracted to a child folder. If you prefer, you can place each application in its own separate child folder, and then modify the $ApplicationSourcePath below as needed (instead of just D:\Downloads).
After downloading the most current version of the Office Deployment tool from the Microsoft Download Center using the link provided above, run the self-extracting executable file and extract the files to D:\Downloads\Office365. The Office Deployment Tool (setup.exe) and several sample configuration.xml files will be extracted.
Using a text editor (such as Notepad), create an XML file in the D:\Downloads\Office365 directory with the installation settings for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise that are appropriate for your organization. The file uses an XML format, so the file you create must have an extension of .xml but the file can have any filename.
Assuming you've named the file configuration.xml as shown above, we'll use the command setup.exe /configure configuration.xml when we create the application in MDT. This command execution will perform the installation of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise using the configuration settings in the configuration.xml file. Don't perform this step yet.
After Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise is installed on the reference image, do NOT open any Office programs. if you open an Office program, you're prompted to sign-in, which activates the installation of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. Even if you don't sign in and you close the Sign in to set up Office dialog box, a temporary product key is installed. You don't want any kind of product key for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise installed as part of your reference image.
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