3 times sysprep

Sorry for the spelling. "deploy" an image. We are a college and the
computers will be re-imaged each semester. As well staff computers are
re-imaged regularly. We have more than 5000 computers in this location. This
is the way we have done it with 98 and xp. I am not sure why my install
count will decrement.
"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well... if you're going to "deplay" Vista, then one might assume that your
> install count will decrement. Otherwise, I have no idea what you're
> talking about because you do not disclose what type of site license you
> have and what exactly it is that you're doing...
>
> Lang
>
> "Brian" <spam@noway.com> wrote in message
> news:%23rVEFppWHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>>I have heard that i will only be able to deplay Vista 3 times. We have a
>>site license for Vista and we re-image over and over again. Is this true?
>>or what is the way for mass deplayment going to be?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>

>
>

Brian wrote:

> Sorry for the spelling. "deploy" an image. We are a college and the
> computers will be re-imaged each semester. As well staff computers are
> re-imaged regularly. We have more than 5000 computers in this location.
> This is the way we have done it with 98 and xp. I am not sure why my
> install count will decrement.

It is not true that you will only be able to deploy Vista three times.
With 5,000 machines you obviously must have a volume license. Contact
your Microsoft representative for details about handling your specific
situation (which is not unusual at all). There is no way that your
college doesn't have a support contract with Microsoft and a
representative with that many seats licensed.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

We do.
Us techs are taking a vista training course and we are in clase now and this
is what this guy is telling us.
Thanks
"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Brian wrote:

>> Sorry for the spelling. "deploy" an image. We are a college and the
>> computers will be re-imaged each semester. As well staff computers are
>> re-imaged regularly. We have more than 5000 computers in this location.
>> This is the way we have done it with 98 and xp. I am not sure why my
>> install count will decrement.

>
> It is not true that you will only be able to deploy Vista three times.
> With 5,000 machines you obviously must have a volume license. Contact your
> Microsoft representative for details about handling your specific
> situation (which is not unusual at all). There is no way that your college
> doesn't have a support contract with Microsoft and a representative with
> that many seats licensed.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

In article <#rVEFppWHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, Brian
<spam@noway.com> wrote:

> I have heard that i will only be able to deplay Vista 3 times. We have a
> site license for Vista and we re-image over and over again. Is this true? or
> what is the way for mass deplayment going to be?
>
> Thanks
>
>

You need to put something like this in your unattend.xml file:

<settings pass="generalize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC"
processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"
language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS"
xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
</component>
</settings>



Read up in the WAIK about "skiprearm" -- this will let you run sysprep
more than 3 times while you are testing your image out. Now, I leave
it for the reader to determine if they ever want to remove it -- it
probably depends on how you are doing your imaging.

IMO, if you are doing something like maintaining an image on a hard
disk that you manually update once a month (say patch Tuesday) and then
reburn your image with Ghost/Acronis -- then you'd leave this in there
and not really worry about the affect of the non-counting against the
KMS server, etc..

If you are using imageX and slipstreaming updates into your load set,
then maybe you don't need "skiprearm".



but I have yet to figure out any scenario where I'd actually want to
*remove* this code that's going to have any adverse affect on my
deployment.


I've probably run my unattend.xml file about 100+ times now with no
problems with this in it. Without it? Running sysprep 4 times will
hose your Vista load and you'll have to start all over. Really.

- Steve