Imaging Steps / Procedures
All,
We are trying to get Acronis SnapDeploy to work as our main solution for imaging and mass-deployments. Anyone have a good procedure on how they are performing such tasks? How are you dealing with OS license activations? Are you getting Microsoft OS Volume Licensing for WIN7 / WIN10?
Typically we purchase workstations direct from DELL / HP with OS pre-installed. Then install all apps and user profiles on the "Base" system, then image, then deploy image on remaining XX workstations.
Really want to get this done via multi-cast but not having much luck. Imaging via connected external HDD that contains the image(s) seems to work better.
Any help is appreciated. I coudl share some install procedures that we have as well
Thanks


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Thanks for the info.
So for WIN10 you are saying we have to first run through the initial WIN10 install and register. Then deploy the WIN10 image we have for it?
Volume Licensing is really not an option too much$$. Does WIN7 have the same issues as WIN10 systems. As is we still need to perform the inital boot and register before deploying the image?
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Americo Dellorco wrote:So for WIN10 you are saying we have to first run through the initial WIN10 install and register. Then deploy the WIN10 image we have for it?
Yup - most likely. I'd test it on one machine in your environment to be sure (make sure you back up the original image of that machine first though so you can restore it if you need to!!!!) With OEM Windows 10, the HARDWARE (motherboard), must be registered with the original OEM license at least one time to register the activation with Microsoft. Once that hardware has a valid registered license, then you can restore any similar Windows 10 OEM license to the same hardware again, even if that image was taken with a different license. All that Windows 10 OEM licensing cares about is that the hardware was registered at least once in order to activate it on the system.
Americo Dellorco wrote:Volume Licensing is really not an option too much$$. Does WIN7 have the same issues as WIN10 systems. As is we still need to perform the inital boot and register before deploying the image?
Nope, Windows 7 licensing is different. All of your Windows 7 systems should have an OEM license Key that came with them. If you don't have it, you can use someting like jellybean magic keyfinder to pull it from the OS. You'll notice that you won't find such a license key on your Windows 10 systems - and keyfinders don't work on them either - they'll give you a key, but it will be exactly the same for every system and that key can't be used to activate Windows 10 OEM. With Windows 7, you can enter the OEM key to activate the machine after the image has been deployed. However, depending on how many times this has been done, you may end up having to call Microsoft from time to time to get that extra long confirmation key.
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