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Unnattended Windows
SysPrep Guide
SysPrep Guide
Hi,
If your using Server2003 SP2 or R2- you can use WDS, or for old school version RIS. RIS will allow other application such as Office to be added.
Ghost is great third pary tool. For imaging the free demo works a treat. If using demo you will have to sysprep the master intially b4 copying.
Beware.. if sysprep used...Intel 915 chipset sets (Microsoft Acticle available).
Ghost 8.0 and ealier will need the ghmon.sys updated or USB sticks will BSOD the PC.
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If your using Server2003 SP2 or R2- you can use WDS, or for old school version RIS. RIS will allow other application such as Office to be added.
Ghost is great third pary tool. For imaging the free demo works a treat. If using demo you will have to sysprep the master intially b4 copying.
Beware.. if sysprep used...Intel 915 chipset sets (Microsoft Acticle available).
Ghost 8.0 and ealier will need the ghmon.sys updated or USB sticks will BSOD the PC.
Need any further advice - reply
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thanks and thanks.
laserT, can ghost do it all without sysprep? I mean, it will be easier to just copy from master image, boot up the system and change the computer name, with all the apps installed...if have to manually join to the domain, that's also not too bad.
we are now doing unattended installation for new PCs, but a lot of customzied applications have to be added manually. don't have hand free option.
laserT, can ghost do it all without sysprep? I mean, it will be easier to just copy from master image, boot up the system and change the computer name, with all the apps installed...if have to manually join to the domain, that's also not too bad.
we are now doing unattended installation for new PCs, but a lot of customzied applications have to be added manually. don't have hand free option.
Check out this link. Hope it helps.
I've used ghost 8.5 ent for a few years to do imaging and it's worked quite well. Making boot cds or floppies was a nitemare to get the right network drives for all sorts of pcs/laptops. Then came PXE network booting which seemed to be great as long as you cleared static entries from the server's ARP table afterwards to avoid network problems. But even now I haev new laptops which hang "transferring image file" when trying to PXE boot. So I still don't have a perfect answer.
As far as maknig the images goes I've used nLite'd XP installs with junk removed and hotfixes/ie7/wmp11 added.
However I've recently (late last night) been reading about using sysprep and virtual pcs to somehow make an image that will install onto any (most) types of PC, to avoid having 1 image per machine-type that you need. The idea sounds like mana from heaven but I've yet to even try let alone succeed with such a great thing. On top of that I was reading about using a PE environment to create a WIM of the image and then essentially install to machines from that.
But yeah - I need to read up more - because if I could make just 1 image for all PCs/laptops the only problem left would be how to boot them up and get the image on.
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Leozack
As far as maknig the images goes I've used nLite'd XP installs with junk removed and hotfixes/ie7/wmp11 added.
However I've recently (late last night) been reading about using sysprep and virtual pcs to somehow make an image that will install onto any (most) types of PC, to avoid having 1 image per machine-type that you need. The idea sounds like mana from heaven but I've yet to even try let alone succeed with such a great thing. On top of that I was reading about using a PE environment to create a WIM of the image and then essentially install to machines from that.
But yeah - I need to read up more - because if I could make just 1 image for all PCs/laptops the only problem left would be how to boot them up and get the image on.
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Leozack
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