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Note that you’ll need to have a Sysprep answer file created and the associated binaries. This post covers how to do that. You should also have the Ghost Client installed on the image source machine. To do this use the Tools>Remote Client Install menu in the Ghost Console. The rest of this post covers how to capture an image of a machine from the Ghost Console. To capture an image in Ghost, we need an Image Create task. To make one of these go to the Tasks folder, right click, and select New Image Create Task. There are several items … Continue reading How to Capture an Image from the Ghost Console

Sysprep is one of those things that seems to have a certain mystique that surrounds it. People either don't run it because they don't understand it, or perhaps because they don't know how. Some people also just don't think it's necessary. The bottom line is that when making an image for duplicating Windows installs Sysprep is absolutely necessary as part of the imaging process. I'm not going to cover what Sysprep does here since that's not the focus, but the long and short of it is that Sysprep removes all identifying information about the source machine when it's run (e.g. … Continue reading How to Build a Sysprep Answer File for Imaging