On 17 Dec 2009 at 11:54, Don Kuhlman wrote:
> Hi folks. Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!
>
> Maybe I am too much because I'm trying to think of the best
> way to do something that should be simple and drawing
> blanks...
>
> Here's the situation:
> 1) Small business client with few users and 3 remote sites.
> OS is XP Pro SP2 or better. Servers are 2003 with 1 SBS
> 2003 Pre R2.
> 2) All sites are remote with no real IT staff on site.
> 3) They purchase a computer from a vendor who installs the
> base OS on it.
> 4) It's delivered to the remote office and they put it on
> the network.
> 5) It's not in the domain and it came with allow remote
> control off and firewall on.
> 6) We want to join it to the domain and then push Vipre,
> etc. down to it but we can't do this remotely.
>
> What we've been doing is having a local user logon to the
> box with the local Admin id and turn on "allow remote
> control" and turn off the firewall and also walk them
> through joining the domain - We grant them enough rights
> temporarily to allow them to do this (they don't know that
> at the time).
> Once it's on the domain we can then get to it provided
> "allow remote control" is on and firewall is off.
> Then we install VIpre, remove other stuff we don't want on
> it, and set it the way we want.
>
> Since the machines don't come to me or other support before
> arriving at the site, I've never used an imaging solution to
> build them.
>
>
> Options/Questions?
> 1) Have the computer supplier set it to our specs after
> baseloading the os before shipping to the site?
> 2) Setup a poor man's imaging solution to be able to image
> any new machine remotely(any suggestions for this)?
> 3) Still don't know how to get it on the domain without
> local intervention.
If you have remote access to another PC on the remote LAN, you could probably
use this technique to enable RDP on the machine and then you could control it
remotely.
Remotely enable Remote Desktop on another computer
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/395
You might need to do this several times.
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