From someone who is in the middle of a Windows 7 deployment to 1500 workstations using SCCM I think this is definitly the best way to go. It's very unfortunate however that the WinPE environment that is loaded prior to installation is not accessible but it's a standard sequence of key presses. It's fine from a sys admins perspective. All I've had to do is prepare the base image and the task sequence, test it on a few machines then train the role out engineers to do the rest.
Hi Listers,
I've been pondering about this question for sometime, and would really
Using PXEBoot there are dozens of options around OS deployment. I'm sure
that if you spent enough time getting to know how it can be configured you
could make different menu items beep so that you knew what OS you were
selecting to install. With various unattend files you could then automate
the installation. You could even pre-select the installation based on IP
ranges or sub nets.
Just a note for SCCM users, I've noticed that update packages have grown
significantly larger with the introduction of Office 2010 and Windows 7 to
our update environment. Until I perged some updates, I was finding some
strange errors in the SCCM system logs.
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From: Ryan Shugart
given the following scenario, you have a server with an image which you must deploy to a number of
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
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
computers, how do you go about doing it? the image from the server and restore it to the system. 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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