Deploy New Notebooks (Windows 7)

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Hello Everybody!

I buy five new Dell Laptops for my training enviroment. On all of these Notebooks are running Windows 7 64bit Professional (activated Licence). Now i finish install the first Notebook with all Updates and some browsers. With my Desktop-Home Computer i create an snap (online with the agent) and want to deploy it on the other Computers. But first i have some questions:

I deploy the complete Image from the configured Notebook to the others. Whats with the Windows Licences? I have to activating it new?

I want to save some configurations for example:

1. Windows 7 with Open Office
2. Windows 7 (blank)
3. Windows 7 with all Browsers
4. Windows 7 with Office 2013

I want to install the system and make an snap, then i want to reset it to BLANK, than i want to install Browsers and make an snap too. After this i have 4 snaps with different configurations.

My question is : does it works?

Lovely Greetz!

Wed, 08/26/2015 - 12:24
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Hello, Frank

If all of your laptops are the same (all of them have the same hardware), then turn off Acronis Universal Deploy (AUD) in the deployment template. After that, you can deploy the created image to the target laptop using that deployment template. After deployment without using AUD, you don't need to activate the deployed Windows. Please note that Acronis Universal Deploy option is turned on by default. (http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ASD5/index.html#1350…).

However, if the hardware of the laptops is dissimilar and the system is not bootable after deployment, you have to use AUD feature and activate the deployed Windows. For more information, please refer to the KB https://kb.acronis.com/content/36187

About saving some configurations: Yes, it works. It makes sense to create a master image of a clean Windows first. Then install the software you need and create a new master image of the system. After that, you may revert to the clean system and install another software you need -> create another master image. And so on.

Best regards.

Mon, 09/07/2015 - 12:31