[THIN] Re: Imaging MPS 3.0 w/ Ghost or other Imaging Software for Deployment
- From: "Rick Mack" <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 07:37:16 +1000
Hi Steve,
The licensing states you have to have a copy of win2k3 enterprise. But
it will manage any 200 or 2003 servers. So the "cost" of ADS is the
price differential between standard and enterprise addition. If you're
already runnig win2k3 enterprise in the form of a file/print or SQL
cluster, or TS with session directory I guess it's free.
ADS is basically a logical step after RIS, but it's totally server
centric. It adds multicast image deployment, a PE boot/build
environment,a post-build mananagement agent and a script interface,
read/write modification of the images and a bunch of other stuff.
Not too bad. But to be honest I'm not using it in production yet;-)
Regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems Ltd
18 Heussler Terrace, Milton 4064
Queensland Australia.
Ph: +61 7 3246 7704
email: rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
web: www.volante.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Sunday, 5 December 2004 4:06 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Imaging MPS 3.0 w/ Ghost or other Imaging Software
for Deployment
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
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-----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/d
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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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