On Monday 08 January 2007 18:12, Greg Thomas wrote:
> I get a new harddrive from Dell, put a CD in, boot, choose the
> correct hardware and grab the correct image. 30 minutes later I run
> the appropriate diff file, name the machine, and add it to AD. Let
> the user login (if they don't know how to set up their email I do so)
> and the login script takes care of printer mappings, etc. The only
> thing the user is missing at this point is any special apps that they
> use.
>
> Greg
Greg,
Though totally off-topic for an OpenBSD mailing list, there are plenty
of issues involved with imaging a MS-Windows system. One of the big
ones is duplication of SID's ("System IDentification"). Supposedly
there are even some security issues with having identical MS-Windows
SID's on the same physical network but it is easy enough to fix the
problem:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/NewSid.mspx
You should add SID changing to your image install process, or even
better, convert all your desktops to OpenBSD. :-)
Kind Regards,
JCR
