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Scott Ehrlich
I work in a very heterogenious TCP/IP environment with different subnets.
As the main Windows person, I am responsible for helping to keep the
Windows community happy and secure. I am faced with at least 200+ people
in a presently non-domain environment, with most every kind of hardware
(OEMs, off-the-shelf, SCSI, IDE, you name it).
To aid the process of (re)installing machines on the network, I'm looking
for:
1) At least an OS reinstall process which will repartition and reformat
the hard drive; push the OS of choice and associated patches (Win2K Pro or
XP Pro) onto the client, disconnect from the network, and do an
installation of the OS and patches
2) If possible, add in our applications, currently on a file server which
users can simply install via mapping a drive or Start > Run
\\server-name\shared-folder and running the program's respective setup
program
The main obstacle I've learned through reviews and discussions about
Microsoft's RIS is that it has problems handling app installs, along with
special tftp and dhcp needs in a mostly UNIX-based environment.
The main obstacle I've learned of third-party imaging programs is their
inability to deal with multi-platform hardware bases.
What are people's experiences? Can anyone prove these reviews wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Scott
As the main Windows person, I am responsible for helping to keep the
Windows community happy and secure. I am faced with at least 200+ people
in a presently non-domain environment, with most every kind of hardware
(OEMs, off-the-shelf, SCSI, IDE, you name it).
To aid the process of (re)installing machines on the network, I'm looking
for:
1) At least an OS reinstall process which will repartition and reformat
the hard drive; push the OS of choice and associated patches (Win2K Pro or
XP Pro) onto the client, disconnect from the network, and do an
installation of the OS and patches
2) If possible, add in our applications, currently on a file server which
users can simply install via mapping a drive or Start > Run
\\server-name\shared-folder and running the program's respective setup
program
The main obstacle I've learned through reviews and discussions about
Microsoft's RIS is that it has problems handling app installs, along with
special tftp and dhcp needs in a mostly UNIX-based environment.
The main obstacle I've learned of third-party imaging programs is their
inability to deal with multi-platform hardware bases.
What are people's experiences? Can anyone prove these reviews wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Scott