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Sysprep (The System Preparation Tool) prepares an installation of Windows for duplication, auditing, and customer delivery.

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What is Sysprep? How is it useful?

I have read a lot of posts suggesting to "run sysprep" on a system. I have done some looking around, but Microsoft's site is confusing at best. What is the purpose of sysprep? What does sysprep do to accomplish its purpose? What are some real-world…
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Windows 10 Anniversary Upgrade error 0xc1900101 - 0x30018 referring to SYSPREP

OK, please, following you have an updated one step ahead question regarding my first question post on the title. The question now is, how possibly get some info or tracing/debug on, which possible reason is leading to this error referring to…
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Move Windows 8.1 installation to another PC - is it possible to avoid a re-install & just move the hard drive?

Last year I've installed a clean copy of Windows 8 (later upgraded to 8.1) on a new laptop. This process was challenging because the laptop included Windows 8 pre-installed (plus bloatware), and my Windows 8 ISO (which I bought before from a Windows…
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Sysprep WITHOUT creating new user

I have install a ghost server and i would like to deploy many Windows 7 64 bits. Before creating the master i must sysprep it but i would like to know how to sysprering without create a new user after restart of the computer. thanks !
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Why does my VM hang on "Windows is loading files..." during a sysprep and capture task sequence?

My nice, well crafted reference machine will not boot at all! I'm trying to run a sysprep and capture task sequence (MDT 2010 and WDS off server 2012). I ran litetouch.vbs off the deployment share and selected the task, but upon reboot the machine…
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Is there a Linux equivalent to Windows' SysPrep

Coming into a large number of old PCs that I want to be able to wipe the drives and reload with a "Factory" install of Linux on the HDD. These machines have no CD-ROMs, so I am looking for something similar to a SysPrep in Windows, and then use FOG…
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Creating Windows 7 images in Audit mode

We are a small computer shop, and got asked to build 20 computers, all the same (basically) for a company. I have fiddled around with Audit mode before, and know it can be used for creating an image that we know works, then "sealing" the…
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Ghost Image - windows asks for activation on when deployed to VM

I have several images created with Ghost Solution Suite (v11 I believe), the images have been in use for a few years now, but I am finally to the point where I have enough time to attempt to virtualize them for easier updates. I am running VMWare…
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Maintain user profiles when using sysprep

We've created a customized Windows 8.1 Pro installation (including all the programs, settings, and additional user accounts we need). We'd like to deplay this image onto about 90 of our computers, so for starters we used sysprep to generalize that…
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Boot directly to audit mode

I'm playing around with Windows Embedded Standard 8 here, and haven't quite gotten a hang of it all yet. My question is: how would I setup my answer file (in ICE), to go directly to audit mode after the initial setup, without running the OOBE…
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sysprep base image in vmware vsphere for Windows OSs

What exactly does sysprep do and when should it be used? I deploy many VMs and VDIs by cloning other VMs or deploying from templates. I am working on updating the base images and have done all other changes needing to be done. Now that I'm ready to…
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Error sysprepping Windows 8 Enterprise 90-day trial

I am using the Windows 8 Enterprise 90-day trial to evaluate the latest version of Windows for a private school. The way I work is that I use sysprep to prepare an generalized image, then I clone it to the school's computers. When I follow the…
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Problem with using sysprep tool for running Windows on a different Hardware

I am using sysprep tool for running Windows 7 on a different Hardware. What I do is that run sysprep on a computer, select System Audit, check the Generalize check box, select Shutdown, click OK and wait for the computer to shutdown. When the system…
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Windows could not finish configuring the system after a generalized sysprep

I have 2 exactly the same configured Windows installations, both 32bit and 64bit. These Windows installations are referring to other other drives for specific settings, such as: The users folder is redirected to the U:\Users drive Some programs are…
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Moving the ProgramData directory in Windows 10 on install

AS detailed in this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1964-users-folder-move-location-windows-10-a.html, I've moved my Users directory from the default C:\Users to D:\Users. I used this answer file, which I saved as relocate.xml:
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