Migrating to XP

[dcowboysr1]

The company that I am with is currenty migrating from Win 98 to XP (the users are in for a shock, I know Does anyone have any recommendations from real world experience as to which method to use to migrate (RIS, Unattended Install, SYSPREP)? It looks like performing an upgrade is completly out of the question for obvious reasons. I have been playing with answer files for a unattended installation, but keep running into issues such as..how the heck do I configure an answer file to install applications???? Any help that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Scotsdude]

Use RIS. make a standard image with the apps and stuff that you want and then just go for it. We did that with Win2k earlier this year, because we had one or two to do (about a thousand, in the end) and it makes life very easy.

Any person or department who requires extra stuff ontop of the standard build can get them put on later

Scotsdude{bravo]

 

[dcowboysr1]

Thanks Scotsdude. What was the impact on your networks bandwidth using RIS?

 

[Scotsdude]

Never really noticed, to be honest. We have a multiple site/domain network, and in the end we put a RIS server in each domain, because our intersite connections carry enough data as it is. Network performance did decrease slightly, as would be expected, but it wasn't too drastic. If you find it becoming a problem, just limit the amount of installs getting done at any one time to say 10 or 20. That way, you'll still get thru them quite quick, but network performance won't suffer any more than is actually needed.

Scotsdude

 

[dcowboysr1]

Thanks again!!

 

[Scotsdude]

no probs....

Scotsdude