Hello I am working on a report for my Advanced Networking class and I was wondering if anyone was knowledgable about SysPrep. I have done alot of research so far and have written a fair bit down in my report. I just had a few questions left unanswered that I couldn't figure out as well as some things that had me scratching my head in confusion.

        Is anyone familiar with the factory mode you can put sysprep into, specifically what its for. I know its for auditing and configuring/testing out software on system before the main installation but I'm just curious as to what the point of that is when you could test anything out during the main configuratio stages of your testing/master computer that you will be creating the duplicate of. It just SEEMS redundant to me and I did not want to write any information into my report about it yet until I had a better understanding.

        Also I was reading that once you were finished with factory mode you had to reseal sysprep and nothing I could find really gave a good explanation of what that actually meant. Like what was actually happening when you did that. Were any SIDs created during factory mode having to be removed again? Can you even create a SID during factory mode or can a SID only be created during the first time a computer is booted up and it has none.

        So ya any help that you guys/gals can offer WOULD be really appreciated. Its getting down to crunch time in school, and theres not ENOUGH hours in the day to spend on this report and do the other gazillion reports/presentations I have to write up in the next week and a half.

PS-Sorry for any SPELLING mistakes, its 3am and Im getting a little tired/jittery from all the energy drinks Ive been drinking.Bump.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577Ive read any and everything I can on those support pages already, and still dont understand the main reason for factory mode. It just doesnt make sense to me. If any of you could read that page and explain the reason of factory mode to me that would be great. I just dont understand why you need it at all.You can forget about this thread, I finally found one little paragraph that explained the entire thing to me.

"Configure a destination computer for Factory mode

This task is performed PRIMARILY in manufacturing environments where every computer requires some customization prior to final delivery. However, it is also useful for some corporate deployments. To do this you run the Sysprep -factory command, or click the Factory button in the Sysprep interface."