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Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/17/2005 8:50:01 AM

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Hello everyone,

We currently install Operating System Microsoft Windows 2002 and 2003 manually and then QC the server to change or update our Event logs, in Services would be such as license logging, World Web Publishing services, SNMP, install SP4 etc. Any idea how we can automate such items so that it will speed the installation. I would greatly appreciate if anyone has automate installing OS on there new server and willing to help me out or any direction to start my own. Thanks.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/17/2005 12:00:52 PM

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We use ghost with sysprep in our AD environment. I'm afraid there are too much information to "type" here. I suggest you start reading the Windows 2000 documentation related to sysprep. It should get you started.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 12:19:35 AM

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As token says, there is a lot of info on this, way too much to type. Check out http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php as they have a forum that is geared to unattended setups.

Here is something that should get you started.

In your unattend.txt file include in the runonce section a call to a script that will be on the HD after the setup is done. In this script have it map a drive to the network and call a script on your network that would then do all that you want done.

Where I work we have a process that runs from WinPE, I partition the HD using diskpart, copy i386 folder, patches, and drivers folders local, write a couple files (Scripts and unattend.txt) then launch setup. Once setup is complete, the script in runonce is called which installs patches, reboots, installs chipset, then launches a script from our network that installs all standard apps.

It takes a while to set this up, but once you do it is easy to maintain.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 12:44:48 AM

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Windows 2002?

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 3:11:13 AM

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heh.. I was wondering if someone would ask that =)

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 6:14:15 AM

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Thank you all. I will do further research on this area.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 6:23:50 AM

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mbouchard, This site http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php. a free register. Thanks!

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 7:36:27 AM

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No problem =)

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 7:39:28 AM

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Go to a new forum? NEVER!! :)

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 7:56:51 AM

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heh, did you click that link ? What is msfn anyway...

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 8:02:40 AM

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I did. It has a bunch of topics, but the VBScripting is mixed in with C++, VB, etc.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 8:35:05 AM

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i use xpcreate from that same website to do win2k and win2k3 slipstreams/unattended installs

the guys here love my cds since it saves them about 3 hours on an install since i have it setup to auto-install our standard set of apps on first boot as well.

http://xpcreate.com/index.htm

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 8:43:51 AM

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What a piece of crappy and shxtty download procedures. ZIP file ? Stupid, period =)

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 8:49:46 AM

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Wow token, I guess you don't like it?

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/18/2005 9:16:11 AM

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I don't know yet, but I certainly don't like the crap that I need to go through just to get a demo version of the software =)

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/20/2005 12:42:18 PM

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I don't think my company will pay for XPcreate prodcut. Thanks Kirrillian for the link.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/20/2005 6:09:39 PM

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Does our environment utilize Ghost ? If so, you can certainly (or continue) to utilize it with sysprep which comes free with the OS. You can even depend on the OS entirely with sysprep or RIS service depends on the level of control wanted and the amount of time you are willing to spend on the designing process of the automated client installation process. I know a lot of financial institutions spent awful amount of time in designing, testing, and managing client installation because they want to minimize the system rebuild time should they need to rebuild a machine.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/21/2005 1:36:00 AM

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I don't use MSFN as a scripting resource but it is an excellent resource on info in setting up unattended installs and silent app installs. There is a little bit of talk about scripting, mostly in the PE forum, but there is some good info there.

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Re: Windows 2002 or 2003 Sysprep - 3/21/2005 4:11:47 AM

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quote:
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What a piece of crappy and shxtty download procedures. ZIP file ? Stupid, period =)

yea that site has gone thru a bunch of changes lately. im using a version from before when it was free. he is basically using a bunch of freeware utilites to slipstream the cds and a batch script to tie them all together. i considered writing a vbscript that does the same thing, but already have too many projects going on as it is. if anyone wants a copy of the free one i have youre welcome to it. it is freely distributable but youre not supposed to modify his code. i think its a handy lil utility, i can start it before i leave from work and ill have a new shiny iso waiting on me in the morning. :) the only bad thing is you have to put in the service packs and hotfixes yourself, but we use that shavik program hfnetpro so it already gets them, i just copy them over for my slipstream cds.

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