Bulk image deployment, how to?

Question

System administration

Good afternoon, I have Acronis Snap Deploy with which I want to deploy images on computers in the office via the network, using a PEX server, I actually want to deploy windows 8.1, but a number of questions arose.
When I create an image of the system, then all network settings are also copied, the network settings will naturally cause a conflict, in fact, ip computers are reserved by mac.
I'm also interested in how windows will behave, if, for example, Windows is not activated or pirated (with a license, in principle, it's understandable), will it work correctly?
I don’t quite understand how I can properly organize the mass deployment of the image, it turns out that I need to create some kind of “flexible” image?
Thanks in advance for your replies.

Answer 1

Simple steps for mass deployment:

1. We put Windows, configure it, put the necessary software, drivers.
   
2. Run sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown and wait for the computer to shut down.
   
3. After turning off the computer, you need to make an image through the Acroins Snap Deploy Agent.
   That is, boot from cd / usb with this agent and remove the image, but in no case boot from the HDD with Windows configured
   After these manipulations, boot up the computers and go through the initial setup steps manually or automatically, but for this you need to read about MDT. All installed Windows will need to be activated.

Answer 2

DHCP server and let them take ip via DHCP?

Answer 3

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/dn475741 ,
System Center Configuration Manager again

Answer 4

The IP address is a dynamic parameter that changes in the configuration file. When creating an image for deployment over a network, you create a blank, and add the rest to the configuration file: a mask for the name of the PC, the users who should be there. IP addresses and more. As written above, you can do it through SCCM. If there is a central protection based on Kaspersky, then there is also a similar functionality.