If you need to setup a new machine with a new sid, use sysprep. It comes with 2000/2003/XP and it will remove all the machine specific info. Run it before you create the ghost image, and you can pop it on any machine with the same hardware. Then it will run a mini-setup to get the machine specific data.
Clay Perrine MCSE Microsoft Active Directory Support Team. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nold Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups Don't know about Drive Image. Didn't see it on Symantec's site. We have/use the corp edition of Ghost. And yes it does have its drawback, but it works for us overall. We are a small shop of 150 employees; 130 of whom are all located in one office. As another poster already pointed out, I DON'T image my servers. I build those from scratch....but I also only have 5 total servers. I do however image all my desktops and laptops and then use GhostWalker to re-sid the machine. Ghost Personal (now Ghost 2003) only lets you drop your image from disk to disk or some such and does not offer some of the "advanced" cloning items (re-sid, etc). But you don't need nor want to re-sid you image. So I would think that ghost 2003 would work. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
