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Deploying 15 nearly identical systems. Can I use a single image?

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etalns

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I'm about to deploy 15 systems in the coming days. They all have the exact same motherboard, but 9 of them have a 2.5 ghz proc and a different brand of ram (same total amount, though) while the other 6 have a 1.8 ghz proc and anotehr brand of ram.

Can I use the same image on all of these machines? Or will the 2.5 needs it own image and the 1.8 needs it own image?

Also, I plan to use Acronis True Image to do all of the imaging/restoration. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

Thanks!
 
Processor should be ok. Will you be using sysprep with this? I would suggest you do that. Or maybe without use newsid or something similar.
 
Ahh, I hadn't actually been aware that I would need anything like sysprep. Just googled it now, and I'm glad you pointed it out. This is my first time doing anything of this nature. I'll have to go through the sysprep stuff tomorrow to make sure I understand it all before proceeding.

Thanks for your help 🙂
 
If the OS you have for the company is a Volume License type, you won't even need sysprep. Just get one system set up the way you want it and then Ghost the Image onto the other computers. You only need Sysprep if the Hardware is different between the computers (ram and cpu speed will not be an issue) or if you need to change the OS or other software License Keys on each computer.
 
Originally posted by: bruceb
If the OS you have for the company is a Volume License type, you won't even need sysprep. Just get one system set up the way you want it and then Ghost the Image onto the other computers. You only need Sysprep if the Hardware is different between the computers (ram and cpu speed will not be an issue) or if you need to change the OS or other software License Keys on each computer.
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He will need to sysprep them. If he doesn't all of the computers will have the same Security Identifier. Each one needs their own unique Security Identifier.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Originally posted by: bruceb
If the OS you have for the company is a Volume License type, you won't even need sysprep. Just get one system set up the way you want it and then Ghost the Image onto the other computers. You only need Sysprep if the Hardware is different between the computers (ram and cpu speed will not be an issue) or if you need to change the OS or other software License Keys on each computer.
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He will need to sysprep them. If he doesn't all of the computers will have the same Security Identifier. Each one needs their own unique Security Identifier.
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Yep, the correct way would be to set up one machine the way you want it, sysprep it and then image it.
 
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