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If I reimage a machine, it does not take on the same computer name as the source image. Is this by design or am i doing something wrong?
what about the SID?
The reason:
If the sid and computer name will stay intact and my base image is already joined to the domain, I could reimage a machine and when it boots for the first time it would already be on the domain. Meaning I would never even have to visit a machine to reimage it.
That’s by design
The Wyse Imaging System (WISard) keeps some unique data through imaging using a secret partition on the flash.
If you’ve renamed 25000 devices based on roll-out location..you don’t want to have to rename them all just to update the image.
I think you can disable this by changing the push.i2c
c:inetpubftprootrapporttoolssa9v90 (or whatever the HW is)
push.i2cupdate the =YES to NO
i believe this will stop it from restoring the name so it should accept whats in the image.-k
so in theory I will be able to image machines already on domain and once they are done they are ready to logon….
Why would you want them all to have the same name?
Wouldn’t that cause a DNS conflict?You are better off writing an automation script for joining the Domain.
You can even toss it as a run once option in the image so that when it boots up the next time it can automatically run and join the domain.Under downloads-Rapport-XPe scripts on this site is a Rapport script to joing the domain. I would agree that it would be better to join the domain after imaging, note the details in the script if you want to use this as a run once command as it takes an extra step to join Xpe terminals with a wite filter.
This is the same as if you are ghosting PC’s – join the domain after the imaging proccess,
Cheers,
-TT
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