RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-19 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM
It = Shook -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Absolutely, I do it all the time. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-19 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
, their drivers will be deleted from \windows\system32\drivers as well ? - Original Message - From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:14 PM Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Sorry

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
performance instead of having umpteen non present drivers loaded. jlc -Original Message- From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 By this remove what´s not present after you

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-19 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 6:53 PM Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 I doubt it deletes the actual physical files (never checked). It deletes the non-present devices from the critical device database and services

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
-Original Message- From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Hmm, well, I will try to simulate the process in a few machines, and see if our building process can be adapted

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
- Original Message - From: Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 That's one of the reasons I dropped nLite for sysprep'ed ghost images

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
, 2008 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Due to the big difference in machine hardware, sysprepping won´t help me very much. I need a customized install, with the selections for keyboard, timezones, group names, accounts, etc, a bunch of SATA drivers, other

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
is cool, but its more than a GUI front end, it's a bit of a hack. KB303786 which leads to KB302577 HTH, jlc -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Absolutely, I do it all the time. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Imagex can inject drivers into an XP image. Regards, Michael B. Smith

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
Hardware is a non issue. Take a look at my sysprep.inf to see how I do it: http://www.optimumdata.net/phil/sysprep.inf Because of the SysprepMassStorage section it does not matter if the machine has SCSI drives, SAS drives, IDE drives, or SATA drives. IMO the general rule of thumb for

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
? Right? jlc -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Imagex can inject drivers into an XP image. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
, September 18, 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 CMIIW, Doesn't imagex just create/mount images, and peimg /inf is what injected drivers. In the case of XP, you still use sysprep, but can mount the image and adjust the sysprep.inf? So you ImageX doesn't

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
part :) Stop arguing with me, or I'll wait outside for you, heh vbg. jlc -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 I admit that my experience using WDS

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
, September 18, 2008 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Point I was trying to make was ImageX is merely an imaging application with the feature that it can mount a wim such that you can modify it later. BDD, SIM, WDS and all that jazz can drop in files that extend

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-17 Thread Mike Gill
OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 No, they don't. It's not hard to do with AutoStreamer though. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Autostreamer.shtml Mike Gill wrote: I have a mix of both VLK and OEM licenses on our Dell's here. A little while ago MS release the XP Pro with SP3 VLK iso, but I

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
Any problems you may or may not have will depend on the tool you use to slipstream. Manually always works but can be a PITA to get all the steps right. nLite screws stuff up in subtle ways. AutoStreamer almost always just works. Just be aware that some OEM disks aren't slipstreamable - I've

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-17 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
-software.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Any problems you may or may not have will depend on the tool you use to slipstream. Manually always works but can be a PITA to get all the steps right. nLite screws stuff up in subtle ways

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
This forum post details a common problem I've run into http://www.msfn.org/board/USB-devices-drivers-problem-t94362.htmlhl=flash That's just one thing, I'm sure there are more. Silvio L. Nisgoski wrote: Now I´m curious... which would be the subtle ways nLite screws stuff ? Have used nLite

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Now I´m curious... which would be the subtle ways nLite screws stuff ? Have used nLite many times, and keep postergating the build of a fully automated install disk... Whether or not it works, imagine being on the phone to MS and describing a corp wide failure/issue and saying you d4eployed a

Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
That's one of the reasons I dropped nLite for sysprep'ed ghost images. Joseph L. Casale wrote: I always use MS methods for all my deployments, which often means a tad extra work but its peace of mind from supportability when the merde hits the fan... -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-16 Thread Mike Gill
I have a mix of both VLK and OEM licenses on our Dell's here. A little while ago MS release the XP Pro with SP3 VLK iso, but I haven't purchased a Dell for a little while. Is there anyone here who has, that could tell me if the new Dell OEM XP Pro CD's come with SP3 integrated? -- Mike Gill