Well, Ghost and script each have their advantages.. If you have a contest for the most number of servers then Ghosting will win as that is one of the strengths of imaging. However, with scripting you generally have increased flexibility. Try maintaining images for a large, evolving farm with many silos and you'll see what I mean. Also, no one ever said you couldn't use a combination of imaging and scripting as well. Either as base image + scripts or using scripts to create an image. Joe _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edward VanDewars Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:49 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Using a Ghost image to build a new server I've found that it's quicker to create a Ghost image without Citrix installed, and sysprep it before capturing the image and create the sysprep.inf file to automate the entire startup. Then you can script the install of Citrix so all you do is load the image on the server and sysprep handles name/SID issues and then you launch the scripted Citrix install and you're set. You can do it with almost zero interaction once you launch the ghost process. On that note, maybe at a future BriForum or something there should be a contest to see who can bring the most new servers on-line the quickest. It could be a shoot-out between the scripted install folks and the imaging folks with the prize of eternal fame. On 8/9/06, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi I need to build a new server to add to my Citrix farm. I dont want to manually build this. I have a ghost image of an existing system that I want to use for a new server. All hardware is the same. The Ghost image contains: Windows 2000 Std SP4 Metaframe XP 1.0 Server is in domain Server is in Citrix farm Lots of apps Image is not SYSPREPed. Its a straight Ghost. Applications are not name specific. Do I simply do the following to get this new server up and running: - remove server from domain - rename server to new name - Change SID - change IP Do I need to uninstall/reinstall Metaframe? Will this server be reliable? Ive seen documents that explain how to create a ghost SYSPREP image but not a document for me scenario (ie existing std ghost image) Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Thousands of jobs, millions of opportunities. Begin here! http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fninemsn%2Eseek%2Ecom%2Eau <http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fninemsn%2Eseek%2Ecom%2Eau&_ t=757263760&_r=Hotmail_End_Text_Jul06&_m=EXT> &_t=757263760&_r=Hotmail_End_Text_Jul06&_m=EXT ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************