Hi folks.  Not sure if anyone has prior experience of this - it's a new one for me, so I'd be interested to know if anyone's been down this path before and if there are any gotchas.

Scenario: We're getting seven identical Acer workstations at the office.  I'd like to do the bulk of the software installation on one machine and then clone it to the six others.  They will be running Windows 7 64-bit

I believe that the procedure is something like the following, but I've never done this before, so I'm not certain:

• Add "master" workstation to Active Directory domain.
• Complete CONFIGURATION and software installation on master, including Office 2010
• Run sysprep; shut down
• Take image of hard drive (I'll be using CloneZilla)
• Copy image to "slave" workstations
• Remove master's original entry from AD
• Boot master workstation - add to domain again and enter relevant details
• Boot slaves - add to domain and enter relevant details

For our new roll out next year, we are deploying Microsoft Office 2010 and using KMS as our licensing method. Througthe use of sysprep’s generalize command, Windows will flush its Activation Status and associated hardware ID as well as rearming the activation state to its fresh install state (grace period).

I'm thinking that the image could theoretically be used for future workstations, regardless of manufacturer/model.