Running Sysprep on Windows

Running Sysprep on Windows

Generally when you want to image a lot of Windows computers at a time you would use Sysprep/Windows Deployment Server. This article covers the Sysprep part of this.

to give a general idea, when you sysprep a system, it removes the Unique ID from the system, and generates a new one when the prepped image is run.

to open sysprep utility, you don’t have to download anything, it’s installed with windows by default, the only way to get to it is by browsing to the following path:

C:/windows/system32/sysprep/

in here there is a utlility named sysprep.exe


there is the utility at the very bottom, go ahead and launch the utility.

as you can see, it’s pretty simple.

To remove device drivers (if you are going to image to dissimilar systems) do not click generalize, otherwise you can, but generally there is no advantage to generalize.

From there select if you want to reboot (start the system in the out of box experience) or shutdown (that way you can image the sysprep drive/partition.)

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