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My Documents was put in place for the less savy people to have any easy to remember location to storee their documents. With Active Directory and Group Policy you can redirect this location to a server on the network. It will automatically sync the files between local and on the server.

NT 4.0 does not support slipsteaming updates the same way as 2000+

Searching is nice and your friend.

You can either use the Windows Update Downloader, or build a generic server and go to windows update and download them all manually.

You can do this with group policy. Look up resticted groups.

The reason it worked when your burned the image is because the image contains all the files that make the cd bootable. They dont appear as files when looking at the image.

This could probably be done but it would be much harder than you think and not worth the time. In my opinion, junction points are more for use on servers to transparently increase available storage to users.

I think your script is making itself more complicated than it has to be. Change it to this "\\SMS1\packages$\Examdiff Pro\setup.exe" /sp- /silent /dir="c:\program files\ExamDiff Pro" copy "\\SMS1\packages$\Examdiff Pro\password.bin" "c:\program files\ExamDiff Pro" Let us know how that turns out. Also, just my recommendation try testing this in a lab environment first in virtual machines so you can use trial and error to figure it out and do it as many times as you need. Also, make sure that the share and NTFS permissions on the share are set correctly. Jim

In install.cmd where is it looking to install the package from? It might be useful to create the package as an switchless installer as described here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=39048. Then add a script at the end that will clean up all the installation files. Just an idea. Jim

Yes. But just so you dont lock yourself out have another backup admin account.

Try running this fix that I wrote. http://files.ondercik.com/FireFoxfix.exe Jim

Server 2003 I dont think automatically assigns it a drive letter. Go into disk management and see if it is listed there. Jim

The OS drives can actually be slower, since they are accessed less frequently and arent shared with virtual machines. The "data/vm" drives should be faster and set up in raid 5 or raid 10. Your other hardware specs seem about right, just make sure the server you buy has room to add ram in the future.

My recommendation: 2 Servers running VMware ESX Server 3. Drive setup: ESX Operating system drives: Mirrored. Data Drives: 2 raid 5 arrays with 1 hot spare each. Start your virtual drives off small, you can always grow them if necessary. Jim

Your printers were probably mapped as part of a GPO.

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Ntbackup built into XP can backup open files. Its not a bad solution at all.

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You still havent posted the code you are using, cant help you until you do that. Jim

You could look at scripting ntbackup and using net start/stop on the services or sc to deal with them as well. Jim

Post the code you use

Have you tried setting the task to use different credentials?

I have tried putting ESX server 2.5.2 on my multiboot DVD but it would not boot sucessfully when using diskemu and an iso image. I have also tried getting it to boot using isolinux and then some parameters. This partially works but after probing some hardware it cannot find /modules/modules-info. Has anyone got past this point? Jim

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