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Copy Image to New System and Relicense?
I am standardizing a group of people on Dell T7600 workstations. I want to
make a system image of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and then just copy the installed image over to each target computer, then relicense. What is the correct procedure for relicensing and reactivating once you have the original image copied over? With Windows 2003, there was a program named sysprep you could run that would take you back to a particular licensing step in the installation, without redoing most of the installation. What's the correct way to do this in Windows 7? -- W |
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Copy Image to New System and Relicense?
"Wolf Kirchmeir" wrote in message
... On 2014-01-25 2:59 AM, W wrote: I am standardizing a group of people on Dell T7600 workstations. I want to make a system image of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and then just copy the installed image over to each target computer, then relicense. What is the correct procedure for relicensing and reactivating once you have the original image copied over? With Windows 2003, there was a program named sysprep you could run that would take you back to a particular licensing step in the installation, without redoing most of the installation. What's the correct way to do this in Windows 7? Win 7 activation keys are tied to the motherboards. If some of the machines run other versions of Win 7, you will need a separate Win7 Ultimate activation key for each machine. So AFAIK you'd have to reactivate them one at a time. This is exactly what I want to do: manually run through entry of a legal license and manually run through the activation of the OS with that new key. MS may have a way around this for situations like yours, so I'd advise asking them about it. I'm not sure what you mean by "relicence", but if you mean apply your existing site license to all workstations, MS should have an answer for you. I assume you want all workstations to run the same software, in which case a utility to install it over the network is your answer. I need to install for fewer than 10 computers. I don't need fancy automation of anything over a network. It's quite sufficient to physically attach a disk image on a SATA drive, then copy that image to the boot volume of the new computer. Again, the question is: what are the manual steps required after copying a disk image to a new computer, to get that computer legally licensed? I do understand that you will need a new license. My question is about what are the mechanical steps needed to USE that NEW license with the OLD disk image. -- W |
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:57:46 -0800, W wrote:
Again, the question is: what are the manual steps required after copying a disk image to a new computer, to get that computer legally licensed? I do understand that you will need a new license. My question is about what are the mechanical steps needed to USE that NEW license with the OLD disk image. Go into control panel, select System and then select 'Change product key'. -- Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2 and built in 5 years; UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/ |
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Copy Image to New System and Relicense?
W laid this down on his screen :
I am standardizing a group of people on Dell T7600 workstations. I want to make a system image of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and then just copy the installed image over to each target computer, then relicense. What is the correct procedure for relicensing and reactivating once you have the original image copied over? With Windows 2003, there was a program named sysprep you could run that would take you back to a particular licensing step in the installation, without redoing most of the installation. What's the correct way to do this in Windows 7? It's still SYSPREP. But now it is located locally on the machine by default in %SystemRoot%\System32\sysprep. What I don't know (and don't have a copy nearby to check) is if that will be present on Ultimate. All my systems are Enterprise. |
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:29:37 -0500, Seth
wrote: W laid this down on his screen : I am standardizing a group of people on Dell T7600 workstations. I want to make a system image of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and then just copy the installed image over to each target computer, then relicense. What is the correct procedure for relicensing and reactivating once you have the original image copied over? With Windows 2003, there was a program named sysprep you could run that would take you back to a particular licensing step in the installation, without redoing most of the installation. What's the correct way to do this in Windows 7? It's still SYSPREP. But now it is located locally on the machine by default in %SystemRoot%\System32\sysprep. What I don't know (and don't have a copy nearby to check) is if that will be present on Ultimate. All my systems are Enterprise. I have Ultimate and I see the following: C:\Windows\System32\sysprepdir /s Volume in drive C is Boot Volume Volume Serial Number is 85C5-A16F Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR . 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR .. 11/21/2010 01:06 AM DIR en-US 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR Panther 07/13/2009 07:39 PM 128,512 sysprep.exe 1 File(s) 128,512 bytes Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\en-US 11/21/2010 01:06 AM DIR . 11/21/2010 01:06 AM DIR .. 11/21/2010 01:06 AM 7,680 sysprep.exe.mui 1 File(s) 7,680 bytes Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR . 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR .. 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR IE 0 File(s) 0 bytes Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther\IE 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR . 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR .. 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 1,890 diagerr.xml 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 1,890 diagwrn.xml 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 707 setupact.log 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 0 setuperr.log 4 File(s) 4,487 bytes Total Files Listed: 6 File(s) 140,679 bytes 11 Dir(s) 433,097,506,816 bytes free C:\Windows\System32\sysprep -- Char Jackson |
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Char Jackson pretended :
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:29:37 -0500, Seth wrote: W laid this down on his screen : I am standardizing a group of people on Dell T7600 workstations. I want to make a system image of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and then just copy the installed image over to each target computer, then relicense. What is the correct procedure for relicensing and reactivating once you have the original image copied over? With Windows 2003, there was a program named sysprep you could run that would take you back to a particular licensing step in the installation, without redoing most of the installation. What's the correct way to do this in Windows 7? It's still SYSPREP. But now it is located locally on the machine by default in %SystemRoot%\System32\sysprep. What I don't know (and don't have a copy nearby to check) is if that will be present on Ultimate. All my systems are Enterprise. I have Ultimate and I see the following: C:\Windows\System32\sysprepdir /s Volume in drive C is Boot Volume Volume Serial Number is 85C5-A16F Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR . 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR .. 11/21/2010 01:06 AM DIR en-US 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR Panther 07/13/2009 07:39 PM 128,512 sysprep.exe 1 File(s) 128,512 bytes Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\en-US 11/21/2010 01:06 AM DIR . 11/21/2010 01:06 AM DIR .. 11/21/2010 01:06 AM 7,680 sysprep.exe.mui 1 File(s) 7,680 bytes Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR . 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR .. 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR IE 0 File(s) 0 bytes Directory of C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther\IE 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR . 03/08/2012 01:17 AM DIR .. 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 1,890 diagerr.xml 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 1,890 diagwrn.xml 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 707 setupact.log 03/08/2012 01:17 AM 0 setuperr.log 4 File(s) 4,487 bytes Total Files Listed: 6 File(s) 140,679 bytes 11 Dir(s) 433,097,506,816 bytes free C:\Windows\System32\sysprep Yup, that's the puppy. Depending on which options are chosen it will remove a machine from the domain (always), reset activation data and set the OS to do a full hardware discovery on next boot (for creating a master image to be used on multiple hardware types). I use SYSPREP to create a sungle master image that is used by all 200,000 machines at my company. |
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