Licencing and cloning ???

I have have just bought 11 computers which are the same. 
There are a number of cloning tools out there including Acronis, CloanZilla, HDClone5, AOMEI.  What I want to know is if I clone one drive to the rest of the drives is it going to break something as far as Licencing is concerned.  Are
the licenses built into the software that is installed on these Lenovo Systems, or can I simply cloan them and I will not run into any issues with the updates etc.
I have watched the video and read the material from Microsoft called building a standard image of windows seven but this seems quite involved and quite frankly since I have Acronis and some of these other utilities it makes it so much users simply to run
them back it up and then restored to the various computers.
Regards

What I want to know is if I clone one drive to the rest of the drives is it going to break something as far as Licencing is concerned. 
Probably. There's quite a bit more to deploying Windows, it's not just cloning. 
Are the licenses built into the software that is installed on these Lenovo Systems, or can I simply cloan them and I will not run into any issues with the updates etc.
There is more to the licensing than the firmware and OS. If you use simple cloning techniques (capture the clone, *after* the computer has been allowed to perform first-run/OOBE), yes, you can expect issues.
I have watched the video and read the material from Microsoft called building a standard image of windows seven but this seems quite involved and quite frankly since I have Acronis and some of these other utilities it makes it so much users simply to run them
back it up and then restored to the various computers.
It is involved. That's how Windows works. If you capture a backup/image of a machine which has performed setup/individuation, then clone that out, you are deploying without performing individuation. Sysprep performs that function.
Don
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