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How do you capture an Image? - 9/18/2008 1:40:38 PM

jguida

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I am testing SCCM 2007 and need to be able to show that it can do all the same things that Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 can do. I am trying to understand the steps needed to capture an image of an existing domain PC.

I do not want to sysprep an image.

I just want to be able to capture an existing PC that is on my network and if need be push the image back down to that same PC or a similar one.

What are the exact steps to capturing an image of an exsisting domain PC?

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RE: How do you capture an Image? - 9/18/2008 3:00:32 PM

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check these links out.. it will walk you throught everything.. Also check out WIKI

http://www.deploymentforum.com/Library/Webcasts/tabid/202/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/18/Using-MDT-2008-and-SCCM-2007-for-ZTI.aspx
http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/SCCMOSD.ashx

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RE: How do you capture an Image? - 9/19/2008 9:33:51 AM

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Why do you not want to Sysprep the image? If you deploy a non-syspreped image more than once, you will have issues because of the same unique identifier being used more than once. Sysprep is the only supported way to reset these ids in Windows.

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RE: How do you capture an Image? - 9/19/2008 9:48:50 AM

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I just want to be able to capture an image of a PC that is currently on the domain and in use by a user. This image will not be used for a different user. The PC name will not change. This image will be used as a backup. In Ghost you can take an image of a PC, then use Ghost Explorer to extract files from it.

In some cases I would never want to change anything about a particular PC. I just want to capture an image of the PC in it's current state. Examples of why this might be done. You are upgrading/replacing a users PC and don't want to run into the problem of the user putting files in an obscure place, thus missing them in the initial transfer. If I take an image of the PC at the time of the new PC transfer I can, if needed go back into that image and get the file/s that the user needs. This also applies if your are replacing a users hard drive. I don't want to recreate the entire PC. If I image the PC before the replacement of the hard drive I can just push/pull the image back down to the PC and I don't have to understand or worry about where the user put their files. If you are testing software and need to capture the various processes at their different states you would want to be able to just capture an image of that PC. Go to the next step and if it doesn't work then you can 'restore' to the last state/image.

Also NEWSID which is a supported program by microsoft, can be run in the event that a SID change is needed.

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RE: How do you capture an Image? - 9/19/2008 10:28:20 AM

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OK. This is situation that OSD won't necessarily handle well for one specific reason, the task to deploy images requires that the image first be imported into ConfigMgr as an Image Package. This would only become an issue if you need to redeploy an image though.

The quickest way to get going is to use the new ts wizard by right-clicking on task sequences and clicking new. Create a Build and capture TS and deploy TS and just rip out the not applicable tasks. These can then be advertised like any other software distribution package.

Also note thhe following (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx):
Regarding SIDs, Microsoft does not support images that are prepared using NewSID, we only support images that are prepared using SysPrep. Microsoft has not tested NewSID for all deployment cloning options.

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