Steps to creating a standard image for corporate PPC? (SOE)

[cyn3rgy]

Hi all

Firstly, sorry if this has been dealt with, I did spend many days searching for answers. Hopefully some of the smart people here can help me out! I've spent quite a lot of time reading through the forums here and I understand the concepts of building custom roms.
I've not found whether it's the right way to image windows mobile devices in a corporate environment. For example, if my company has 200 palm treo pro, and we just want to apply the same setup onto every device (such as sprite backup settings, and install a dot net app), does this require the itsutils, extracting the fs and then generating the nbh using kitchen or something? Is there a simpler way to do it given that I'm not trying to modify anything after it's out of the phone? I'm thinking to simply setup 1 device the way we want it, then dump the fs and push it out to all 200 devices. Am I being naive? Is it a lot more complicated than that? Also, does anyone know if doing this would void the warranty/support on the devices?

thanks

Andrew

[Farmer Ted]

I think you want to look into SPB Clone. It does everything that you need.

[cyn3rgy]

thanks ted. Looks perfect but the $300 per device price tag is pretty hefty. Any other ideas?

[Farmer Ted]

Are you sure it's per device? I thought it was per license. That makes it a little more reasonable. I actually hope you get it, cuz I've been wondering how the hell it worked. There description makes it sound like they're flashing a rom image, but you have to figure it's just a normal backup utility. Do me a favor-convince your boss to buy it, then report back here on what the deal is with it, lol.

[dwizzy130]

Are you sure it's per device? I thought it was per license. That makes it a little more reasonable. I actually hope you get it, cuz I've been wondering how the hell it worked. There description makes it sound like they're flashing a rom image, but you have to figure it's just a normal backup utility. Do me a favor-convince your boss to buy it, then report back here on what the deal is with it, lol.


I have used it before. It actually does make an image file (contained in an exe) that will duplicate itself exactly on every device. It is not just another backup program.

dwizzy130

[Farmer Ted]

So, are you telling me that if you hard reset, it will boot back up to the clone image, and not the stock rom? That's pretty cool.

[dwizzy130]

So, are you telling me that if you hard reset, it will boot back up to the clone image, and not the stock rom? That's pretty cool.

I actually don't know about that... I never tried it, but it isn't flashing a ROM so it might get rid of it. Idk.

dwizzy130

[cyn3rgy]

this is the response from sprite about their licensing. 300 per device is too much, but you can get a 10 day demo from them if you want to try it out.
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Dear Andrew,

The licensing for Sprite Clone is Per Device i.e. you can use “Sprite Clone 20 License Pack” to image 20 WM devices.

You can install the PC software on any number of PC’s but you can only create an image/restore the image you create to 20 devices.

You can create numerous images and restore as many times as necessary to the 20 devices.

Hope this helps,