[THIN] Re: Imaging MPS 3.0 w/ Ghost or other Imaging Software for Deployment
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 11:06:00 -0700
Strange though- it says you have to own Windows Enterprise edition, but the
software works with all the other versions.....
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
(602) 296-0411 fax
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Martin Stephenson
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:35 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rusty27@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Imaging MPS 3.0 w/ Ghost or other Imaging Software for
Deployment
Funny you should ask about this, I have just been given the task of creating
an unattended install solution for our XP Farm. I just did a quick google
and discovered that Microsoft have released a product called "Automated
Deployment Services" (ADS) thats free to download and use, provided you have
Windows 2003 Enterprise Server. Theres always a catch!
ADS has some gr8 features like PXE Boot, Virtual Floppy, Image compression,
Image mounting (so you can mount the image as a file system and then edit
it), Command line and GUI tools and a WMI interface.
I haven't installed it yet and I'm still reading the doco. In time I will
evaluate it with several other products, including Altiris.
As ADS is so new I would be interested to know of other peoples experience
with the product.
You can find out more about ADS at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/ads/defau
lt.mspx
Martin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Rusty Yates
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:56 AM
> To: Thin
> Subject: [THIN] Imaging MPS 3.0 w/ Ghost or other Imaging Software for
> Deployment
>
> What is everything using to deploy MPS 3.0? I'm looking to see if
> there are better solutions out there.
>
> We are currently using the following steps to Image our MPS 3.0 Servers:
>
> Create Image:
> 1. Uninstall Citrix
> 2. SysPrep Server
> 3. Ghost Server
>
> Restore Image:
> 1. Restore Image
> 2. Install Citrix
> 3. Install Citrix Hotfixs, etc.....
>
> My main question is can we create a Image that can be deployed without
> having to uninstall Citrix first?
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