I'm having trouble finding this info believe it or not, or i find conflicting reports...

Creating a base Win2012r2 server for deployment.  No worries about default user profile here i do everything in GPO i need.

Im done, i open a cmd prompt

sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown

The machine shuts off.  Now i grab my image. 

At which point is 1. a new sid created and 2. the machine named?

One is because I'm curious and never really knew, but i suspect it has to be on the next boot (i.e. after deployed to a machine) otherwise every machine with that image has the same sid.

Two is because it doesn't seem possible to have 2012 OOBE *prompt* for a computer name like in the old days...and yes in my environment prompting is the preferred way (i know it's possible to get real real creative with scripting the computer name in, but i'm looking for quick and dirty prompting)

Thank you..

I should add, i know the sid is removed with the generalize option, which is what it's doing while you see it "generalize" among other things.

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