> You just needed to actually read the documentation and use sysprep [...] There are a ton of things sysprep does that are really helpful
And a lot that are not helpful, iirc. It was probably 10 years ago when I had to deal with this, but my recollection is that Sysprep was messing with a lot of stuff - more than I needed.
> Microsoft doesn’t care if you clone systems, (why would they?)
Lol, licenses, of course. Nowadays they got a bit softer on the issue, but back then they were still very very twitchy about duplicating and virtualizing systems.