SCOM 2012 Agent - Best Practices with Base Images

I've read through the
SCOM 2012 agent installation methods technet article, as well as how to
install the SCOM 2012 agent via command line, but don't see any best practices in regards to how to include the SCOM 2012 agent in a base workstation image. My understanding is that the SCOM agent's unique identifier is created at the time of client installation,
is this correct? I need to ensure that this is a supported configuration before I can recommend it.
If it is supported, and it does work the way I think it does, I'm trying to find out a way to strip out the unique information so that a new client GUID will be created after the machine is sysprepped, similar to how the SCCM client should be stripped of
unique data when preparing a base image.
Has anyone successfully included a SCOM 2012 (or 2007 for that matter) agent in their base image?
Thanks,
Joe

Hi
It is fine to build the agent into a base image but you then need to have a way to assign the agent to a management group. SCOM does this via AD Integration:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc950514.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/archive/2010/06/14/ad-integration-considerations.aspx
http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/active-directory-ad-integration-when-to.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212922.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2008/01/02/understanding-how-active-directory-integration-feature-works-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx
You have to be careful in environments with multiple forests if no trust exists.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/smsandmom/archive/2008/05/21/opsmgr-2007-how-to-enable-ad-integration-for-an-untrusted-domain.aspx
http://rburri.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/untrusted-ad-integration-suppress-misleading-runas-alerts/
You might also want to consider group policy or SCCM as methods for installing agents.
Cheers
Graham
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