Ghosting and windows 2k3 product ID

[Optical]

I am using a single image for many servers. How do you go about changing the product ID on the clone machines after it's restored? Are other "ID's" I shoud look out for besides install product ID? I presume when an OS installed it identifies the machine by several sources.

I'm not referring to activation but just the install CD key. We have volume licenses but just rolling out thru ghosting.

The clone serves have identical hardware.

 

[DavidO]

If you are cloning a Windows machine that will be on the same network you need to run a SID changing utility such as SYSPREP (downloadable free from Microsoft). If you do not use sysprep the clones will all have the same security identifiers and this can cause issues with computers in a domain especially. Read the sysprep documentation and you will see you can change the product ID and other info defining info via sysprep.