To sysprep or not to sysprep, why are we still having this conversation? (opens in new tab)

Going way back into the time machine, there were third-party utilities like GhostWalker (remember Ghost?) and NewSID (from Sysinternals) that could “prepare Windows for imaging.” Eventually, Microsoft said “you must use Sysprep, as that’s the only supported way to prepare an OS for duplication.” That should be the end of the story right? Not quite. […]