Need to change SID and NOTHING else on Win 7 64 bit image for depl
Ralph Malph
installs 32 and 64 bit) It is EXACTLY the way I need it to be. I use Ghost to
make image of HD and load that image on all like PCs in the company. The ONLY
thing I need to change when I boot up a newly imaged PC is the SID and the PC
name, then I need to join the domain. In XP I could use "NEWSID" by the old
Sysinternals org, now owned by MS unfortunatly. Newsid does not work in Win
7, NOT COOL MS. I looked at using Sysprep, but it wants to foolishly delete
my CAREFULLY tweeked and specialized administrator profile and use the
"Default" profile for a new Administrators profile. THIS IS
UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!! I have the default profile EXACTLY configuard the way I
need it for a USER and the Administrators profile setup the way I need it for
an administrator. The two are NOTnot the SAME and should not be the same.
How do I use Sysprep to close my image and have it ONLY change the SID on
bootup. IT MUST NOT TOUCH THE ADMINISTRATORS PROFILE AT ALL, nor mess with
the default profile, though that does not seem to be a problem !!!!! All I
realy need is a new SID and PC name. This is a common sense need and should
not be rocket science but I have not found a way to do it. A BIG SHAME ON MS
FOR NOT PROVIDING A WIN 7 NEWSID OPTION !!!!!!!!!
I am trying to work with the WAIK which I downloaded from MS, but so far it
wants to start from an image, not MY soon to be image, but the one from the
DVD. I don't need that one, I have made my own install master and MS needs to
make sure that I can use that one!
Maybe someone out there has already created a .XML answer file that will
keep all aspects of the "image" exactly as I have it and ONLY prompt for the
new PC name and maybe the domain to join and appropriate credentials, as
needed. If so plese tell me how to get it and where it needs to be placed on
the PC prior to running Sysprep.
Any ideas would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Ralph Malph
RCan
you should definitly read the blog from Mark Russinovich which does exactly
this :
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx
Regards
Ramazan
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Drewfus
when the command 'sysprep /generalize' is run the following registry setting
is added:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager
SetupExecute:REG_MULIT_SZ: Setupcl.exe
Setupcl.exe is reponsible for regenerating SIDs during reboot. The file path
is:
%windir%\system32\setupcl.exe
You could achieve the result you looking for with this command:
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager" /v
SetupExecute /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d Setupcl.exe /f
See this old KB article for more info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298491