The trouble with clones

WSUS and clones, it appears, have a bit of a problem.

Despite sysprep and other steps cloned machines keep their WSUS ID. Therefore you only every see one of the cloned machines in the WSUS console. This is a well know issue, but one I keep forgetting …

To avoid mucking around with purging registry keys, this handy batch or VB script sort everything out.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/athif/archive/2005/09/04/65174.aspx

Genius!

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