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How to create a Ghost image with WinMagic software pre-installed

ISSUE:

How do you create a ghost image, such that once the computer gets imaged and rebooted, it will already have the WinMagic software installed and be  ready to start the enrollment and encryption process?
SOLUTION:

In the SES server:

Create an Installation package to deploy a suitable Profile for the intended devices.
In the Installation Package settings first panel, enable the option, "Ask user to verify information”.

ON THE "Golden Image" Machine (the one from which all images are made)

Simply install the SecureDoc client software, using the Installation Package created above.

Once the SecureDoc client software is installed, because of the setting chosen above, it will display the SDForm Screen, prompting the user to click the Submit button.  DO NOT CLICK SUBMIT!!!  See note below.
It’s at this point the user should shutdown and create a new image of this machine (using Ghost or similar software).

NOTE: If the image taken is of a machine that has already encrypted itself, then all "downstream" copies of that machine machine will be protected by exactly the same same encryption key as the "Golden Image", which is not recommended.

IMPORTANT:  This "Golden Image" machine should never be encrypted itself, or it will lose its value as a source of master images.  The Administrator adding applications to this machine will always need to cancel the SDForm prompt to ensure that this device can never continue on to encryption.

ON THE "Descendant copy" Machines (the ones that have had the image applied):

When these machines first start up into Windows, the SecureDoc SDForm screen will be displayed, permitting the "real" user to verify or specify his User ID and other information, and then submit the information to SES, along with the unique Encryption Key that will protect the device.
Once this takes place the machine will then start the encryption process.

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