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Question about deploy of "windows 10 OEM license"

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Hi,

I have 7 new identical computers by Fujitsu Siemens (recent hardware, core i3 6100, and 1 ssd). They all Windows 10 OEM preinstalled with Fujitsu apps. In each of these PC, I need to:

  1. remove all the bloatware
  2. install 1 additional PCIe ethernet card
  3. install 1 PCIe card (Multiport serial RS-232 by Moxa)
  4. install all my software, runtimes, and drivers
  5. edit settings on windows 10 (for example: give each PC a static IP, a name, set 2 shared folders, disable windows 10 spyware and games)

Can SnapDeploy let me do this on 1 PC, and then distribute it to others PC?

Will I be in trouble for having OEM win10, instead of Volume license keys (non tied to hardware)?

Can I do this with a simple Workgroup Network? (no windows server/domain)

thanks

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Please take a look here for your OEM license questions...

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/127648#comment-399838

Since these are OEM, you'll want to boot and activate the license on each individual computer first - just in case. This ensures that each computer hardware (motherboard) is registered with a license to the Microsoft servers.  Once that's done, you should be able to do the rest.  You can redeploy the same version of Windows 10, regardless of the image being used, as long as it's the same license type (OEM and Pro for Pro or Home for Home). 

Keep in mind, if using a single image, any settings you have set in your image will be recreated to the deployed systems.  (like the static IP address).  You're probably better off leaving DHCP for the deployment task and updating the static IP when you're done on each machine - or, if possible, assign a DHCP reservation to the router or DHCP server so that the sysem still uses DHCP, but will get the specific IP address directly from the DHCP server instead.  (if this is an option in your enviornment).

Snap Deploy is designed to allow you to distribute any image to mutliple machines - as long as you have the correct number of deployment licenses and the correct Windows licensing in place, you can do what you want.

Yes, a workgroup will be fine - the main thing is that they are all on the same subnet/network so they can communicate with the deployment server.  You can then either PXE boot the systems to connect to the server, or boot them manually with your USB or CD/DVD recovery media and connect to the server.  Either way, if your image lives on a network share, you'll need to provide the credentials to Acronis to allow it to authenticate to the share.  In a workgroup, the username would usually be    servername\username  instead of just username