Ghost Solution Suite

Hi,

I don't have any training or experience creating images but I've ended up being tasked with creating one for some new PCs.  Are there any guides for prepping the image before capturing it with Ghost?  A few immediate questions I have are:

• The PCs we have came pre-installed with Windows 10 Pro, do I need to re-install Windows 10 with a volume licensed version or will Ghost re-apply the current license?
• Do I need to sysprep before or after joining the PC to the domain.

I'm sure there is a lot more I'm not even aware of or thinking about right now.  Any info is appreciated, thanks!

A few guides that might be useful. 

I also have several videos including how to make a gold system image using ghost. 

For the vidoe on the how to make a gold image and how to then capture that see the following.   It is a little long but I tried to shorten it so it is all useable no dead time. 

https://youtu.be/3x0pHJyn2NA

For the full play list of videos see I think there is lots of good info for variouse topics. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzKI8Y3zwNuCiGZ3QHrgih8n9R1L3Ef3s

Specificly for your questions. 

1 You absolutly need to install your volume licence copy on your golden system that you will be building the image off of.   It isn't the license number that is the issue it is that OEM copies are not leagal to deploy out and MS does not support running sysprep on an OEM copy.   There is lots of internet arguing about this point but there is my take on it.   Wipe the drive and load your volume OS from the ISO don't use andy OEM installs. 

see https://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH249488  step 1 is to load a clean os

2. I would recomend not joing your domain at any point with your golden image, if you did sysprep will disjoin once it is run so it might not matter but I have seen odd behavior some times while joined to a domain.   Mostly because of GPO's that are applied as a result. 

 

Thank you for the information ICHCB!

Glad to help, 

Being new to imaging your suggestions on what other videos you thought would be useful would be helpful.    If you think there is some thing that would be good to add PM me and I will add it to my list to try to make when I can. 

Cheers

Glad to help.    As a new user let me know if you find that any other "guide" video toppics that might be good to put together.   I have a few more on my list but if you have any suggestions let me know. 

Cheers