Lenovo 11s backup one backup for multiple devices

Hi, have bought 28 devices...
on first  acitivation, 800MB win 8 update, then 3.62 GB to update to Win 8.1, , then another 1GB for win8.1 updates. 2.5 hours ++
Microsoft  and Lenovo  seems to have got rid of the concept  of ISO image backup  disks purchase as an option..
Now if i were to follow the tortuous create system recovery  route   and create  a back up image.
Could i use that  image  to install  the update/restore on  all the  other devices... or is that "backup" linked to  a windows activation code for the device it was created on?
Windows 8 and 8.1  a proverbial mess..... 
Searched online in Lenovo . no answers 
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Mark
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The best way to do what you want to do is to use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.  There is a learning curve; however, it is the tool Microsoft intends to be used for image capture and deployment in a an environment where you do not already have something like SCCM in place to manage and deploy systems.  With it you can capture an image from a donor machine and you can create deployment media (a usb key) which allows you to deploy that captured image to other machines.  
Using the method you described, all of the machines would have the same exact SID's (security IDs).  The MDT process uses sysprep so that every machine can be initialized with their own unique SIDs.  

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