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SYSPREP to change SID "after" image restore
Hi all,
I know I can use sysprep to prepare an image so it generates a unique SID. My questions is whether its ok to do this "after" restoring an image to a PC.
I have two Dell machines. One had the factory image which I used to create a restore usb from the factory.wim. If I use that restore USB to reimage the other PC (same exact model and hardware) it works just fine, but the SID is set to the same as the machine where I pulled the factory .wim.
To change the SID I simply open up sysprep on the second PC and ran it to out of box, generalize and reboot. System reboots, I simply have to go through the setup process again and it changes the SID. Are there any problems changing it this way?
I know I can use sysprep to prepare an image so it generates a unique SID. My questions is whether its ok to do this "after" restoring an image to a PC.
I have two Dell machines. One had the factory image which I used to create a restore usb from the factory.wim. If I use that restore USB to reimage the other PC (same exact model and hardware) it works just fine, but the SID is set to the same as the machine where I pulled the factory .wim.
To change the SID I simply open up sysprep on the second PC and ran it to out of box, generalize and reboot. System reboots, I simply have to go through the setup process again and it changes the SID. Are there any problems changing it this way?
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I am not doing a mass deployment. We have several employees that all use the same Dell model and config. Some of these machines were downgraded to Windows XP and the restore partition removed. I created a boot usb with the factory.wim from one of the machines so I can easily restore these systems (about 9 PC's) to their factory settings with a clean image restore. I know mass deployment would be better to create a gold image restore, but for such a few number of PC's I just restore from the factory.wim and then run sysprep after the fact so each machine is set with a unique SID. I don't believe that should be a problem.