SOE rollout issue.

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Anthony Hodges

Hi, our company's normal guy died very recently in a car crash (R.I.P.) and
along with his terible crash he took a lot of undocumented knowledge. The
task has been handed to me for at least the next few weeks and I have no
experience in SOE rollouts, although I know of them and just need to know
some basic steps.

We have mixture of pc's on site with a number of new Dell GX270's with OEM
Windows 2000 pre-installed and we also have a large Windows 2000 volume
license. It was my intention to create a single shared network installation
point and I would install the OS through a MS Dos Client boot disk (running
F:\I386\winnt /u:unattend.txt /udf:blah,blah).

I have installed a slipstreamed Windows 2000 SP4 client through this method
fine. But I would like to be able to install the drivers as well. Now this
this the part I have no experience or training in...

* How can I add the drivers, PnP info and HAL's into the setup image so that
the installation procedure will auto-detect all my hardware?

* Also we still run Office 2000 and IE 5.5 at work. How can I create a
custom version of office 2000 and IE 5.5 so I can put it into the post
installation section of my unattended script.


Thanks

Anthony.

hodges.anthonyATebacD0TcomD0Tau (reverse my first and last name in my alias
to email me)
 
I would recommend that you use OemPnPDriversPath in your unattend to
provide 3rd party drivers during installation:

279112 How Windows Determines the Most Suitable Device Driver to Install
During
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=279112

254078 How to Add OEM Plug and Play Drivers to Windows Installations
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=254078


You will also want to read the following:

Deploying Windows 2000 with Unattended Installations
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn
ol/windows2000pro/deploy/w2koffice/dep03.asp

Since you are installing on brand-new GX270s, you will not have to specify
the HAL (it will be properly detected)

Resources that you can use for your IE deployment:

Deploying Windows 2000 with Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK)
Modifications
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/incremental/w2kieakmo
d.asp

For Office 2000:
Automating the Deployment of Windows 2000 Professional and Office 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/incremental/sysprep.a
sp

Since it sounds like you are deploying to only GX270s, I would probably
suggest that you create one Sysprep image and image to the other machines.
It takes A LOT less time to perform installations.



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"Since you are installing on brand-new GX270s, you will not have to specify
the HAL (it will be properly detected)"

Actually, we just have a volume license with product key. We have a generic windows 2000 Professional CD here and I have slipstreamed a copy into SP4.

What may be of some benefit is that we have a single OEM GX270 pc with Windows 2000 SP4 installed. Could I use the HAL's off the supplied disk off that standalone computer?

Also I am going to try your recommendation of using Sysprep, but gosh it is annoying doing this stuff without any training.

Thanks, heaps!

btw... Is there a document that I can refer to that explains the differences between doing this for Windows 2000 and XP Pro (as I may also be responsible for doing future SOE rollouts)?
 
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