I am putting together 8 new computers for my dentist. All brand new with exact same hardware. These are generic machines I am assembling with Gigabyte motherboards and not name branded computers. Since his needs are so basic he wanted something small physically and no internal DVD Drives, etc. We also bought 8 new licenses for Windows 7 Professional (64bit) with DVDs.
All legit, nothing illegal going on here. They are using Dental Practice Management software that runs off a shared drive from the server.
I know that I can install the Windows 7 & drivers then run my updates, IE 11, Firefox, Adobe Reader, etc and skip the Windows Key for up to 3 days.
Can I get one computer fully up and running without putting in the Windows 7 keys, make an image using Acronis Truimage (I am not too familiar with sysprep). Then I load the images to all the computers and then put in the Windows Keys? The images will be done using an external USB hard drive and booting off an external USB CD/DVD drive containing teh Acronis CD.
These will be on the network and on the Internet. They are using a simple file server, so there is no AD.
Will this work or do I still need to be concerned about SIDs? I was reading that I need to run sysprep and then clone the disks as it will generalize each computer before I clone. But I was also told that sysprep can only be used 3 times.. not sure if it means 3 times on the base computer or I can make 3 clones?
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