Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Re: imaging software

I believe Ghost Solution Suite runs about $8 per PC these days and about
$1.50 per PC per year for maintenance. We have been running it here for the
last 8 years, so I'm only 100% sure on maintenance.
____________________________
Ben Schworm
Director of Information Technology
Berkshire School
413-229-1270


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Bernadette Roche <
Bernadette.Roche@oakhilldayschool.org> wrote:

> I ran into the same problem with the SID and it was Greek to me as well.
> After I imaged my machines, I ran this download
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx which
> assigned a new random SID to the imaged machine. Then I was good to go.
>
> On a related note, anyone know how much an enterprise version of ghost runs
> costwise?
>
> Bernadette Roche'
> Technology Coordinator
> Oakhill Day School
> bernadette.roche@oakhilldayschool.org
> 816.436.6228
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: imaging software
>
> Maureen,
>
> If you will be imaging a relatively large number of PCs on a regular basis,
> you'll want an enterprise imaging solution. I'm only familiar with ghost,
> but the enterprise version handles SID changes (as well as removing/adding
> systems from the domain) as part of the imaging process. If you don't have
> an enterprise version, you can run sysprep on the PC you're taking the
> image
> from prior to taking it. After downloading the image to your other PCs,
> Windows will run a mini-setup that will give you the opportunity to assign
> the systems unique names and enter license keys, and it will generate a
> unique SID.
>
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Maureen Tumenas
> <maureentumenas@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > We currently do not have an IT dept and are making do with very limited
> > support. We are rolling out some refurbished PCs and had trouble with
> > imaging. I used ghost and although the image worked perfectly in my test,
> I
> > was told that there was something wrong with SID numbers... Greek to me.
> >
> > What software do you use for imaging? Is it necessary to use an
> > "enterprise"
> > version?
> >
> > TIA for your help
> >
> > Maureen Tumenas
> >
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