On the Windows side, Microsoft has a product called System Center Configuration manager that does a whole bunch of stuff in adition to operating system deployment. Using this tool you can build an image and push it out to many different systems without even so much as touching the systems. I haven't played with the OSD features yet, but in theory you can automatically reimage computers in remote offices, etc. For smaller shops, MS has a tool called the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT is actually a free download, that gives you some of these features out of the box. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:22 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] deployment of an image to different systems? Have no idea on the windows side but kick start is your friend here for Linux. It's totally possible to automate your installs and boot / install either over the network or off disk. What we have here is a CD that boots and grabs / install all the packages needed. Google kick start and you should learn more than you want to know. Thanks Scott On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Zameer Mahomed wrote:
Hi Listers,
I've been pondering about this question for sometime, and would really like to know how, as a blind-sysadmin you accomplish such a thing.
given the following scenario, you have a server with an image which you must deploy to a number of computers, how do you go about doing it? Also, would the process differ, if you were deploying a windows or linux image? I know the regular sighted people could do the following: 1. boot to a pre-environment with network support so that they could access the image from the server and restore it to the system. 2. Use PXE or something like that, where the computer which will get the image, boots from the network card to the server where the image is then accessed. not sure exactly on this one as I'm no sysadmin, but merely just someone trying to learn.
I know about deploying applications through sccm since I've heard Daragh's podcast on the deployment of jaws.
Thanks for reading, and any reply on how you manage to do such things would really be welcome as I'm such a newbe, it is one of my dreams to learn how sysadmins do the things they do.
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