[THIN] Re: Installation Manager vs. Cloning
- From: "Andrew Wood" <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:24:23 +0100
If you've W2k3 enterprise edition knocking about you could use ADS as an
alternative to altiris...
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chad King
Sent: 16 June 2006 12:15
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Installation Manager vs. Cloning
Thanks for all the input guys..
I know that Altiris is probably the best solution however that's not an
option for me right now. Just to give a little more background we use IBM
Blade Servers. We currently own XPe so there is no additional cost in using
Installation Manager. I also have MSI packages for 95% of my current
applications. The farm is approx. 130 servers all running XPe FR3 with a mix
of SP4, and we currently clone all of our servers with applications already
installed.
So I'm back to my original thoughts.. What am I going to regret if I build
a server with all the apps and image it. I'm aware of all the configuration
changes that need to be done prior to and after imaging. Are there other
issues I'm going to run in to? I've typically used a mix of Altiris, IM,
and Imaging at previous positions so I do see the benefits of scripting, but
we currently don't own Altiris and as far as I know have no plans to
purchase it.
Thanks!
Chad
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