Re: [Blind-sysadmins] deployment of an image to different systems?

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

Hi Listers,

I've been pondering about this question for sometime, and would really

Darragh: Very cool. OSD is one of the things I'll be looking into later, as time permits in my ever busy schedule, and I've been a little conserned just how the Windows PE environment would work accessibilitywise. I looked at trying to add a screen reader into Windows PE, but I don't think its possible as there's no sound stack in Windows PE at all. A big oversight on Microsoft's part if you ask me, but oh well. I know Microsoft's official recommendation is 500 updates in one package, no more. When I started as the SCCM admin, the person who'd been doing it previously just kept adding the new month's updates into the same package as all the previous months, and he'd been doing this for about two years. I'm now at the point where I just create a new package and update list each month, which is probably a little more work than necessary but it assures me the updates I want to go to certain machines are going to those machines and only those machines. I'm always interested to hear how other SCCM admins handle this though. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh OHeiligh Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:42 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] deployment of an image to different systems? 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. 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. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie From: Ryan Shugart To: Blind sysadmins list Date: 09/06/2011 00:20 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] deployment of an image to different systems? Sent by: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org 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: 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

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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