Any Gotchas When Ghosting W2K3 Server?

[SYSMAN_MK]

Just a quick question. I am in the preocess of setting up a new Domain. I have 2 new servers with identical specs. I have completed the install of W2K3 Server on one and updated etc and its all working fine as a standard PC.

If I ghost this to the second server do I need to do anything such as sysprep for XP? Or can I just rename the PC and continue from there?

Cheers

[Jamman960]

You'll need to either sysprep it or run newsid after ghosting. I'd probably stick with sysprep to be honest.

[Gatt]

IIRC, the only time Sysprep cannot be used is on a DC..
Other than that it should be fine to Sysprep and Ghost

Used to di this a fair bit when I worked for a training company that delivered MOC courses - That was fun trying to follow M$'s scripts to set up an entire domain..

[FN-GM]

If you dont have sysprep to hand you can jsut reset the SID with this:

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Win dowsUpdate /v AccountDomainSid /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Win dowsUpdate /v PingID /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Win dowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f
cls
@echo Triggering detection after resetting WSUS client identity
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

[SYNACK]

If you dont have sysprep to hand you can jsut reset the SID with this:

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Win dowsUpdate /v AccountDomainSid /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Win dowsUpdate /v PingID /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Win dowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f
cls
@echo Triggering detection after resetting WSUS client identity
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

Um thats just for Windows update and won't reset the machine SID. I would be careful if the original is a DC otherwise a sysprep will be fine as cert services and AD both take a note of the drive identifier and other things that get very messy when imaged.

[SYSMAN_MK]

Domain hasn't been created yet, just getting W2K3 on them. Cheers for the input. Ghosted and syspred and all seems fine.

[MGSTech]

Can you actually ghost a server with the normal Ghost 11 client?

Unser deploy center (b4 gost solution suite) you has to use a server version?

Steve