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Sysprep is the name of Microsoft's System Preparation Utility for Microsoft Windows operating system deployment.

History

Sysprep was originally introduced for use with Windows NT 4.0. Later versions introduced for Windows 2000 and Windows XP are available for download from Microsoft and included in the Windows CD. Windows Vista marks the first version of Microsoft's NT operating system to include a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) independent version of Sysprep in the "out of box" installation.

Purpose

Desktop deployment is typically performed via disk cloning applications. Sysprep can be used to prepare an operating system for disk cloning and restoration via a disk image.

Windows operating system installations include many unique elements per installation that need to be "generalized" before capturing and deploying a disk image to multiple computers. Some of these elements include:

  • Computer name
  • Security Identifier (SID)
  • Driver Cache

Sysprep seeks to solve these issues by allowing for the generation of new computer names, unique SIDs, and custom driver cache databases during the Sysprep process.

Administrators can use tools such as SetupMgr.exe (Windows XP) or the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows Vista/7/Server 2008) to generate answer files that Sysprep will process on new computer deployments.

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Windows 10 broken after running newsid

I know newsid was retired by its creator Russinovik almost 10 year ago and so it is definitely a bad idea to run in on windows 10 machine. Anyway I received two new computers which probably were generated from the same image and they had identical…
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How can I migrate my windows 10 to new hardware using sysprep?

So, my mainboard of my office pc is now dead (finally) and I have been given a new pc with better spec. I am trying to move my windows & all my applications along with it(which is still intact in my old pc HDD C: ). So far, I found we can…
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Sysprep didn't change the SID

I'm trying to join a 2012 R2 server to a domain controlled by another 2012 R2 server. The domain is a test domain, but it works. I joined a different server to this domain. But I've been trying to create a VM image that could be cloned, and it…
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Applying OOBE to captured WIM

Im trying to deploy an OOBE image using MDT Sysprep Task sequence. I have no problem capturing the "golden" image (with all necessary programs and what-not) but the main point of the confusion is how to deploy the capture in OOBE? When I make a new…
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Sysprep: Deploy image created in VirtualBox - Workflow?

I would like to deploy a reference installation of Windows 10 Pro with software and user settings to my physical clients. I have a couple of questions concerning this process: Can I start the development of the reference image without a product…
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Capture/Sysprep Image or Modify it with MDT?

I hope serverfault is the right place for this question. If it's not, please let me know where the right place is! Anyway, I have a WDS server which I am using to push Windows 10 images. However, it's not a vanilla Windows 10 image, it's a DoD…
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Putting this installation of Win10 Pro on multiple machines

I have 6 machines which all run Windows 10. They are networked up to 2 servers running Server 2012. They were all hardened to meet CIS Guidelines by an engineer who didn't take into account what they were to be used for. Nothing network based worked…
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Windows PXE Boot freezes in KVM

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 running WDS/DHCP Service and an Ubuntu Server 16.04.4 as a qemu/kvm host where is running a Windows 7 vm as an image to capture for WDS (syspreped). Now when i want to PXE boot the Win7 vm, i get into Windows Boot…
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Error during sysprep

I have a recurring problem using sysprep on our Windows 10 machines. I use sysprep with an answer file. When I send our windows image on machines with almost the same hardware, everything works perfectly. However, lets say my source machine is a…
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SYSPREP Windows 7 After language bar install

I had a sysprep file that worked fine with windows 7 ent. However I installed chinese simplified and now after the sysprep runs it comes up with a box to choose english or chinese. I have it set to use en-au for input lang. Is there somewhere else I…
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How can I skip the sysprep step and just capture an image?

Ok the problem is, I am troubleshooting a problem with network connectivity when booting into the PE capture media (and only that PE). I only know how to use the capture media for SCCM, so each time I use it, it does a sysprep. I can't really…
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Is the audit mode of SYSPREP practically useful in Windows deployment?

Supposedly, using the audit mode in sysprep allows you to maintain fewer images, as you can customize a base image (during audit mode passes) for the various departments or user roles you might have in your company. However I am having trouble…
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Run logon command as administrator Windows 10

I've looked around and couldn't find a answer to this exact question. I am working on building a Windows 10 image to push to a bunch of computers using Clonezilla and I am trying to get the unattend process figured out for Windows 10. I have one…
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Forgot to run Sysprep before migrating a VM to a new Azure account

I've been tasked with migrating our VMs from our old Azure Account to our new one. I knew nothing about anything when I started the process a few days ago. I decided the best thing to do was take it one step at a time. So I reassigned our…
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Is it possible to specify an answer file when PXE booting windows using memdisk?

I'm able to PXE boot windows from my Linux server using memdisk to mount a winpe.iso that: mounts two samba share drives, one for the windows install disk, and another that has answer files (each answer file is in its own directory). Then it…
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