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What is Sysprep?

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What is Sysprep?

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Sysprep is a utility that will allow you to duplicate a fully configured Windows 2000 installation to a large number of machines. This utility automatically regenerates the SID on each duplicated system. Sysprep can also be used to duplicate stand alone and member servers. At this time, Sysprep cannot be used to clone Domain Controllers. You can however create a base server image, and then run DC Promo on each server to reduce deployment time for a large number of similar servers. Microsoft has written a very informative Whitepaper on the subject called Automating Windows 2000 Deployments with Sysprep located here. The version of Sysprep that comes on the Windows 2000 CD has been updated to V 1.1. You can download the new version here. This new version eliminates the mass storage controller dependency of the original version. Previously you would need to create a separate image for each system that had a different mass storage controller. Sysprep is still dependent on the Hardware Abst