Win 7 SP1 Deployment for OEM kind of product.

Question

HI,
 Got a requirement for Deploying of Win 7 SP1 deployment on new product. Currently We planned to sysprep on refrence image and apply the image . On System boot it ask for Licence and user detail. Is this is right way to Deploy OS for product with proper
license or some other better way is available.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
When you run the sysprep /generalize command, the activation clock will automatically reset. You can bypass resetting the activation clock by using the SkipRearm setting in the
Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP component. This enables you to run the Sysprep command multiple times without resetting the activation clock.
What you need to do is make sure your machine is activated prior to sysprep. Then using Windows SIM add the key
Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP\SkipRearm to the Generalize phase and set the value to 1 for your unattend.xml file.
Once you have this key set, you can use sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:unattend.xml command, and at this time, the SkipRearm key will prevent the activation from being reset.
For more information about this settings, please refer to
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff716063(WS.10).aspx
Andy Altmann
TechNet Community Support