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Windows SteadyState - Ghost 2003 - Sysprep - Help!
3:53 PM EDT 8/27/09
Hello. I have installed Windows Steadystate am in the process of trying to ghost 66 Dell Optiplex 760 desktops using Norton Ghost 2003 and sysprep. When I tried this the first time, the public shared profiles remained locked and I could not get them to unlock. The second time, I exported the shared users, however only the restrictions for each user transferred and not the desktop settings that I had customized for each shared public user. I have researched this and have not come up with any step-by-step sure-to-work instructions.
Has anyone successfully used Windows Steadystate 2.5, Ghost 2003 and sysprep to get desktops or laptops fully working with the user customizations still intact as well as being able to lock and unlock the user profiles. You may send me an email at bonitacollins@yahoo.com or you can reply and I will surely appreciate it. Thanks.
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RE: Windows SteadyState - Ghost 2003 - Sysprep - Help!
2:22 PM EDT 9/2/09
as a reply to Bonita Collins.
Hello. I didn't get any responses on here when I asked this question, so I ventured out and asked a collegue that uses Steadystate and I have found his advice to be very useful.
First, off I did not use sysprep at all. Before I installed Windows SteadyState on the computer, I added the public profiles as regular users and the administrator profiles to the computer . I then went in and set up the software in each profile - Office, Media Player, I.E. 8 and the children's games that I found will work on Windows XP with no problems. After getting each profile set up and the desktop the way I want it, I then used Norton Ghost 2003 to image all 66 computers. Once an image was created, I logged back into the computer and renamed it to a different name. Remember that I have not loaded Windows SteadyState yet onto these computers. After every computer had been re-imaged, I then installed Windows SteadyState on each indivdual computer separately. Remember all the profiles will show up in WindowsSteady State and then you add the permissions to each profile. Do not lock the profiles until you are sure everything works according to your satisfaction.
This way when you need to reghost a computer, you can uninstall Windows SteadyState and the profiles will remain on the computer because they were not created using Windows SteadyState. Hope this helps someone. Thanks.
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