DRBL / Clonezilla and windows Active Directory hosts

[Nicolas Ecarnot]

Hello,

After having succesfully set up a DRBL server, created images and dumped them back to our 12 hosts computers, I'm now wondering what is the best practice in an Active Directory world :

• If I set up a template windows client host and add it to an AD domain, then create an image out of it, when restoring it to our many hosts, they will have the same AD ID, hostname and so on. I tried that, so I have to unjoin them out of the domain, rename them, then join them back to the domain. I'm loosing all the automation and time saving benefit.
• If I create the image from a template host that is still in a workgroup (thus NOT in any domain) and restore this image on the other hosts, I still have to join them one by one to the domain. And still wate time.

Well, what is the recommended way you're using in such a case?

Thank you,

Nicolas ECARNOT

[Steven Shiau]

I am not familiar with MS Windows AD. However, I believe you can use some command line to do that, and if so, you can have your script to run it. This would be faster.

Steven