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You may want to do a bit of research into RIS Dan, more
specifically the [Components] portion if that is the type of customization you
are referring to.
Here is a URL that I keep handy:
As for any registry changes, that can be scripted fairly
easily.
Software deployment can be accomplished a number of
ways. If you want to keep it simple you could use Riprep but I personally
am not very keen on it.
Keep in mind though, your machines have to have
PXE-compatible nic's, or a NIC that is supported by the RIS boot
floppy. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] RIS Unattended (Was: Automate Computer Name Changes) I’d be interested in
the customizations you’re unable to make using RIS. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Dan
DeStefano I would prefer not to
use RIS as there are a lot of customizations that I make to the OS, many of
which cannot be done with unattended installation via RIS (or, at least I do not
know or any way). Dan From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Michael
Wassell Is it safe
to assume that RIS is not an option? From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Brian
Desmond Dan- You can
certainly script this with netdom. If you want to use sysprep, you could set the
compnay name to be that dny01pd, and then sysprep will populate the rest with
random crap. --Brian
Desmond From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan DeStefano I have not been able to find a way
to sufficiently solve the following problem: automatically changing computer
names after imaging. I would like to reassign computer names based on a company
naming convention plus variable. So a computer name would be something like
“dny01pd***”, with the asterisks representing an automatically assigned number.
As far as I know, Sysprep does not allow this; it will only allow you to assign
a random name, which is not acceptable. I am not using unattended installations
so I cannot use .udb files to assign computer names. I have been using
GhostWalker to rename and join the PCs to a domain after imaging, but it just
randomly-assigns numbers for the variables. This is a little better, but
GhostWalker doesn’t increment the numbers, nor does it check the network for
duplicate names (or so I’m told by Symantec
support). Ideally, what I would like is some
program or script or whatever, that can be run after imaging that will assign
computer names consecutively or will consult a file for a list of names; then go
and check on the network for a duplicate name preferably by fqdn – and ideally,
be able to join the PC to a domain and assign it to a specific OU as icing on
the cake. Does anyone know of a tool that will do this? (Are you working on
something like this, Joe?) I am also curious about how others
currently handle imaging and automatic computer
naming. Dan
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