RIPrep and Sysprep

Iceberg

Can someone shed light on definition of riprep.exe and sysprep.exe, please?

What is a distinction of those apart from creating the image on RIS server and removing configurable settings from unattended files? Thanks.

genXrcist

From what I know they're virtually the same except that riprep clears the SID and then pushes it out to an RIServer for future deployment.

Sysprep, does the same thing except that it's used for 3rd party imaging utilities like Ghost & Acronis etc.

There's a lot more to it than that but that's the basic gist.

itdaddy

we do images here at my work with Acronis true image and after we
image them we use sysprep.exe to reSID the machine so it doesnt keep the same SID as the image OS..that way on the our Domain
AD doesnt see the same machine many times..the SID identifies it as that machine and if seen on the network with the same SID
it really does weird things being attached to the Domain..

best to always sysprep after you make each image to make it its own machine. then after you sysprep with a new SID
you have to reregister with MS$$ over the internet again.

Iceberg

Thanks for your help guys. I’m OK now with that