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Supported Sysprep multiple drive configurations
Windows PE drive enumeration may be different than the Windows main
operating system enumeration for Primary partitions. If you wish to backup to a
partition other than C:\ Primary, you must set the Backup partition type to
Extended.
Note: Backups will fail when doing a Sysprep backup if the drive letters of the
partitions are changed after running the Sysprep backup.
Sysprep Backup/Restore
Password Persistence will not work with Sysprep Backup/Restore, because in a
Sysprep Backup image, the Password Persistence information does not exist. Turn
off and then start the system after completing a Sysprep Backup. To restore from
the Sysprep Backup, switch to the advanced interface of Rescue and Recovery and
select the DO NOT PRESERVE my Windows User ID and password option. Do
not perform the restore in the simplified interface which is enabled to use the
Password Persistence by default. Only a full restore can be performed with base
backups that were taken using Sysprep. Rejuvenate, or operating system and
application restore will not work with a Sysprep base backup.
Password persistence
The following table shows considerations for deciding whether to use Password
persistence.
Table 13. Password persistence considerations
Issue Impact if Password persistence is enabled
If a user logs into an old backup with the
current account and password, then none of
the Encrypted File system files and folders
will work because those files were encrypted
against the original account and password,
not the current account and password. v User will lose Encrypted File System data
v You cannot use Encrypted File System
and Password persistence together.
If the user did not exist on backup, then the
user will not have any of their user folders or
files. All Internet Explorer favorites and
application data do not exist.
v The User ID documents settings are not
set.
v Potential data loss
Deleting the user ID in the current accounts
and passwords will remove the user ID
authentication information from all the
backups.
v User does not have access to data.
If a manager or a network administrator
wanted to delete the access of several
ex-employees and wanted to restore to the
base backup to reset the system to remove all
of the employees authentication accounts, the
ex-employees would still have access with
Password persistence.
v Is not a standard of the Microsoft User
ID maintenance practices and
recommendations.
When restoring from a local hard drive, the current password will be used when
Password persistence is selected. When restoring from USB or the network, the
password of the most recent backup will be used.
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