I'm replacing machines on fly, so any time I can save is important. I just ran though a mock replacement and the CSD took almost as long to install as MQ itself.
My guess is that your sysprep image is setting permission on mq resources to the wrong "mqm" group - that is a group named "mqm" with a different SID than the mqm group on the local machine.
I'm currently trying to build a Windows 2000 image which will be deployed to about 30 machines, most of which will be running Websphere MQ. Basically, I want to install MQ (and all of the other softwa ...