Adapt Registry

Update Configurator will automatically change the name, IP address, IP mask, and description in the common registry from the archive to reflect the local workstation (recognized from its MAC address). Even with "identical" hardware some workstations will not be able to share the same registry apart from these few settings. For instance ISA PnP network adapters have a key in the registry with a name that is part of the adapters MAC address and thus have to be different on each workstation. To overcome this problem it is possible to make such a registry key local to each workstation meaning that it will not be part of the archives registry (it will be deleted before any update of the archive) and will be imported to the local registry at each boot of the workstation.

Using Adapt Registry

• First prepare a workstation (lets assume it has the name WS1) to have the desired files that will be common to all the workstations. If you have different hardware on the workstations this may involve some work to make sure all driver files for all hardware is present on a single workstations.
• Create an archive using Update Configurator and configure WS1 to use this archive. This operation will copy the contents of WS1 to the archive to a version that we will assume is called 1. Exit Update Configurator on WS1.
• Start Update Configurator on another workstation (lets assume it is called WS2) and configure it to use the same archive. This will copy the contents of the archive to WS2.
• If had the same software installed as WS1 go to the next step. If not, reboot WS2 and reinstall the necessary drivers.
• Choose "Adapt Registry" to compare the local registry of WS2 with the registry of the archive and save the differences. When asked if you want to save the changed registry to the archive answer "Yes". This will create a new archive version (called 2). Exit Update Configurator on WS2.
• Start Update Configurator on WS1 and change the archive version from 1 to 2 and update WS1 by choosing "Get" from the Archive Menu. Choose "Adapt Registry" just after this (without rebooting) and answer "No" if asked if you want to save the changed registry to the archive.

To configure a new workstation WS3 to use the same archive version start Update Configurator from WS3 and before pressing "OK" to copy the archive to the local hard disk, change the archive version from 2 to 1. Reboot WS3 and reinstall the necessary drivers. Change the archive version to 2 and choose "Get" from the Archive Menu. Choose "Adapt Registry" without rebooting, answering "No" if you are asked if you want to save the changed registry. Now the configuration of WS3 is finished.