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Sysprep changes other settings that I don't describe in Table 13 1. The settings that it changes depend on the computer's configuration. For example, it disables Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance. It configures System Restore to create an initial system checkpoint the next time Windows XP starts. It also resets the computer's digital ID and resets the Windows Product Activation timer. Last, if you're using [SysprepMassStorage], Sysprep fills the critical devices database and configures the device drivers for each device. The changes that Sysprep makes to the registry are numerous, but the following list summarizes some of the most significant that I found while sniffing out the changes that it makes: Sysprep resets the event system. These settings are in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EventSystem. Sysprep removes certificate templates and certificates from the keys H K L M \ S O F T W A R E \ M i c r o s o f t \ C r y p t o g r a p h y a n d HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EnterpriseCertificates. Sysprep resets the configuration of Group Policy in the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy. Sysprep removes the computer from the domain, if it's a domain member, by deleting the appropriate values from the keys HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon,HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DomainCache, and elsewhere. Sysprep removes policies from the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies. Sysprep removes networking components from the keys HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control,HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum, and HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services. S y s p r e p r e s e t s t h e a p p l i c a t i o n c o m p a t i b i l i t y d a t a i n HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\AppCompatibility. S y s p r e p r e s e t s p o w e r m a n a g e m e n t s e t t i n g s i n t h e k e y HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Power. Sysprep configures the Netlogon service to load on demand instead of automatically in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon. Sysprep adds the devices specified in [SysprepMassStorage] to the critical devices d a t a b a s e . T h i s d a t a b a s e i s i n t h e k e y HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase. Sysprep installs and configures device drivers for the devices listed in the [SysprepMassStorage] section. It configures these device drivers in the key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.

In this chapter, I've given you enough information to start testing Sysprep in your lab straightaway. Sysprep is even a great tool for those power users who install Windows XP over and over again. But I haven't told you enough about Sysprep for you to build an image and start blasting it at an enterprise's desktops. There's much more to Sysprep than just writing a few answer files and running Sysprep.exe. Considerations include everything from defining preferred configurations to licensing to whether you've configured your routers for multicast. Disk imaging is a part of an overall deployment plan, 278

which includes hardware and software inventories, migration plans, configuration plans, and much more. Microsoft has several resources available to help you plan large scale deployments using disk imaging techniques. To learn more about these important resources, contact your Microsoft account manager, who'd be happy to tell you about them. The ultimate resource for online deployment information is the Desktop Deployment Resource Center at www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/officexp/deploy/default.asp.

Microsoft Office XP is extremely flexible and highly customizable. Users can customize Office XP through its settings, custom templates, tools, and much more. For example, an accounting department can create custom templates for expense reports, and IT professionals can create custom dictionaries that contain computer terminology and product names. Users can customize everything from how their toolbars look to the file formats for saving documents. Almost all these settings are in the registry. IT professionals can customize user settings and distribute standard Office XP configurations to all users. First install Office XP on a sample computer, and then customize the toolbars, settings, templates, dictionaries, and any other options for each program. Run Profile Wizard to create a profile settings file (OPS file) that contains all these settings. If you add the OPS file to a transform (MST file), your customized settings are included when you install Office XP on client computers. Custom Installation Wizard is the tool you use to build MST files. It enables you to customize settings directly in the MST file without an OPS file. You can also use it to set user options and edit registry entries. Profile Wizard and Custom Installation Wizard are part of the Office XP Resource Kit, which you can find in the ORK folder on any Office XP Enterprise Edition CD. You can also download it from http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork. Because the resource kit's tools are covered comprehensively in the resource kit book, I won't go into detail about them. Instead, I'll focus on how to use these tools to deploy user settings, which are essentially registry settings. And if you're interested in learning about specific Office XP settings, including Office XP policies, and where you find them in the registry, see Part IV, "Appendices." Tip Most of the tools in the Office XP Resource Kit are useful for more than just deploying Office XP. For example, you can deploy settings for any program using Profile Wizard, and you can customize other Microsoft Windows Installer based applications with Custom Installation Wizard. For that matter, you can use Profile Wizard to customize Windows XP if you're prone to frequent reinstallation.