> I never heard someone building an image for a mac for example. This happens where I work. Amongst other things it: 1) Set the hostname of the machine. 2) At

> I never heard someone building an image for a mac for example. This happens where I work. Amongst other things it: 1) Set the hostname of the machine. 2) At one point, changed the timezone to one of the US offices (I work in Europe). 3) Prohibited upgrades to newer versions of OS X until they were approved by the IT staff. 4) Forced reboots for installation of security updates (happened to everyone in the office at the same time, with a few minutes warning and no option to cancel). and some other annoyances. I needed at one stage to reinstall OS X (my fault, as opposed to something wrong with OS X), and this got rid of the issue. I was informed by a colleague that if you reinstalled OS X while connected to the corporate network, that it would install OS X from the company's IT servers instead of Apple's ones, thus pulling down the corporate image. I can't 100% verify that claim, but it sounds true what I have seen when people reformatted in the office.