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Installing a Windows 7 image using OEM key provided with new computer

I work for a company of approximately 200 employees. We order 2-3 computers a month and would like to create and deploy a standard Windows 7 Pro image to the new machines. Is there a way to do this using the OEM license key that came installed…
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Checkout Laptops Imaging and Encryption

We have about 20 laptops (windows xp or 7) that we're getting ready for checkout at a library. People will be using these laptops anywhere from 1 day to 3 months. We have a few issues because of new policies enacted at our institution. First of…
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PC Imaging questions

I have some questions about how to image a group of PCs. I can use ghost or other software to create an image of a single PC well enough (otherwise this question would just be on superuser). What I want to do is scale this up so I can set up one…
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How to make bootable images of triple-boot OS on Mac OS

I would like to know the best practices or at least the method to do the following things that I am working on. I have installed triple-boot OS (Windows 7, RHEL Linux and Mac OS 10.6) on iMac 7 using the rEFit tool. The goal I want to achieve is to…
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Is there a way of creating an image from a bootable usb stick

I would like to create an image from a hard drive, but most software for this requires to be installed (on windows) I would like to attach two hard-drives and a usb stick, and create and copy the image of one HD onto another, without having windows…
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Simple Duplication of several Machines (Imaging, with Linux)

I have set up a single laptop (I have 10 of these exact models) for a demonstration next week. I want to copy the configuration (Fedora 13 with the software for demonstration) to the 9 other machines. Is this simply a dd operation? I may be thinking…
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Multicast image restoration with adaptive speed

I'm curious to know if there are any tools for restoring disk images (or even transferring files) via multicast -- for any platform, especially if the project has source available -- where the multicast rate adjusts itself on the fly. On the Mac,…
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How do I access the hidden "R & R" partition on a Lenovo laptop?

I have some Lenovo laptops (T410 / X201) and want to get the .wim files from the R & R partition. Anyone know how I can access it? It shows in the OS (i.e. has a drive letter assigned) but shows as "empty". This is also the case if I boot into a PE…
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Pre-built images deployed directly onto machines without Virtualization

I'm looking into a solution for our QA department that allows them to create a set of operating system images and deploy them to multiple machines from a central server without using virtualization. Does anyone have any recommendations on a solution…
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Capturing installed applications with MDT

I am using Microsoft Deployment Workbench v6.3.8450.1000. I am trying to configure MDT to capture/deploy Windows 10 images. I have done a few test runs and I am able to capture the image with LiteTouch.vbs and deploy it with PXE boot, as…
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WinPE/Wim imaging - Boot issue after imaging, require reboot after to fix MBR

I've done lots of googling around until I found an article that did help me fix my issue to some extent... here: Cannot reboot after applying WIM file I've created a 64 bit WinPE image stick using the Microsoft tutorials for mostly Window 10. I have…
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Activate Windows 10 when OEM key is missing

We are offboarding a hundred plus Dell Latitude E7470 and 7480 model laptops by reimaging them with base Windows 10 Pro, and about a quarter of them fail to activate Windows 10 Pro due to not having a valid digital license. I have found that…
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How do I know when SCCM is done installing software packages after imaging?

We are preparing 3000 computers for deployment in a short amount of time. We do this every year. We had a last minute change and we are turning them on one by one to update them and while doing so I'm noticing about 10% of the workstations don't…
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Automating installation of multiple windows variants

I posted this on stackoverflow but was told that this is a more appropriate forum for this kind of question. I have a situation where I need to test some stuff (hardware) on multiple operating systems (viz. Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 -…
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System Center Configuration Manager for a 100% cloud-based company

We are a start-up with 11 employees and growing, and we are 100% cloud-based. We do not have, nor do we want, on-prem anything. Those 11 employees all have company-owned laptops running Windows 10 64 bit, and all are joined to our Azure AD. But…
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