At work I've built 7 new workstations for some of the employees. To install the OS, I have been using Symantec Ghost 2003. I've jotted down the process of how to clone systems in a one-off manner for my own reference, but thought it might benefit others if I posted the How-To here.
I've noted some interesting behaviors with getting the new clone to login to the active directory domain properly once the above process is complete. This has to do with the system time of the clone being different from the system time of the domain. The way around this I have found is to:
1. Login to the cloned box using a local computer account.
2. Open a command window and type: net use \\ADcontroller\ipc$ /username:domain\administrator password
3. Then type: net time \\servername /set
This gets the time of the clone in synch with the domain.
If the machine still won't login to the domain, the solution is to remove the workstation from the domain, setting it back to WORKGROUP mode. Reboot. After Reboot, join it to the domain.
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