Automate Entering Your non VLK Product Keys into Sysprep
- The Problem
In our environment we have 500+ computers, each with its own product key and no VLK’s at hand to use. I decided one day that typing all these keys every time we cloned was getting old and sat down to find a way around the issue. I needed a database of all the product keys and a way to map the keys to the box they came from and after finding out how to do all this I needed a way to use the keys with sysprep. I guess you could follow these steps even if you only have one key but since you can put a single key directly into the sysprep file why would you do this? Anyways, the idea behind this all is 10+ keys, 10+ computers a little bit of laziness and wanting to get the clones done faster. Hang with me while I explain this all as there are a few steps to getting this all to work. Read the rest of this entry »
