Sysprep on Windows 7 for a non-windows admin?

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Published on 2010-02-14T07:46:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 17:11 UTC
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I'm needing to use sysprep to deploy some Windows 7 machines. I can't find any resources that explain this very easily. In particular, I've loaded all of the programs I want for the image onto a computer. If I want to use prepares this for cloning onto 200 other machines, what steps would I need to take?

Or do I need to start again, creating the image using 'audit' mode? The machines I'm using come pre-configured from the manufacturer with a host of custom drivers that wouldn't be fun to re-install - I'd rather use their base image to build upon.

Cheers,
Victor

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