Dan,
Thanks for the work you obviously have done below. This may turn out to
be useful for many of us.
Some people wonder why large installs have not moved from XP to this.:P
SCott
Daniel Zobel wrote:
For those of you who run Novell and or Zenworks (ZCM), Window 7 and
image you need to do a couple of things to work with ZCM and then if
you want to have Windows 7 be able to activate properly then you need
to do something else too.
Windows 7 has to have sysprep run with the generalize feature for the
activation to work, even though you change the SID it doesn’t let you
activate as Windows 7 has to have each machine be a completely
different machine for it to work.
Zenworks is easier, but if you follow all of the steps below after the
image process and sysprep it will make you put in a computer name and
will register in ZCM.
Zac unr –u user –p password Will unregister the client with the server
Zac reg –u user –p password https://serverip will register the
client with the server
Zac fsg –d Removes the client info from just the client, but does
not unregister from the server, but you can delete the workstation
from the server too
This works below to remove all of the previous GUID settings and gets
the machine ready for imaging. Run sysprep at the end – Windows 7 it
is in C:\Windows\System32\sysprep and select generalize. This also
when the image is done will have you put in a computer name and it
will register with Zenworks automatically.
- 1: Install a machine with the zen client (and or novell client)
- 2: Run regedit and delete the following entries:
HKLM\Software\Novell\Zenworks\Preagent\GUID entry
HKLM\Software\Novell\Zenworks\Remote Management\ALL machine name entries
- 3: Now stop all novell services on the workstation (should be 3-5)
- 4: Browse to c:\program files\Novell\Zenworks\Cache and delete the
entire ZMD directory
- 5: Browse to c:\program files\Novell\ZenWorks\Conf dir and
delete the following files: Devicedata, deviceguid, GUID.txt
rename the initial-web-service.bak to initial-web-service
(IF YOU DON'T DO THIS The machines WILL GET another SID, but DON'T GET
ANOTHER GUID AND DEVICEID. ) even if they are cleaned of preboot settings
- 6: Run c:\program files\Novell\Zenworks\Bin\Preboot\ziswin
- 7: Click Edit| Clear imagesafe data and save
- 8: Click no on the mark for just imaged question
- 9: Optional for Microsoft SUS server (see details below)
- 10: Run sysprep -mini -quiet -reseal. (Windows 7 has sysprep in
C:/windows/system32/sysprep/)
DON'T START THE MACHINE IN WINDOWS AGAIN, BUT TAKE AN IMAGE AT THIS POINT!
Dan
Daniel Zobel
Director of Technology
Heyworth CUSD#4
Direct Phone 309-473-2250
Grade School 309-473-2822
High School 309-473-2322
Unit Office 309-473-3727
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Scott R. Williams
Fisher School District
801 S . 5th St.
Fisher, Il 61843
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