WDS (RIS)--will it do what I want?

[straytoasters]

There is a wealth of information here that I will love to search through to find all the answers I need, but before starting that (re)search can someone just answer if WDS (RIS) will accomplish my end goals?

The goal is simply to create an image that is deployable to many machines of the same type over the network. However being domain machines they all have to be named/IP-ed differently. Does WDS (RIS) have this ability or is there some other process that can be spawned after RIS runs to do the re-naming and joining to the domain? Basically I want all the functionality of Ghost, but am tired of fighting Ghost to get the end results. Thank you.

Straytoasters

[fizban2]

There is a wealth of information here that I will love to search through to find all the answers I need, but before starting that (re)search can someone just answer if WDS (RIS) will accomplish my end goals?

The goal is simply to create an image that is deployable to many machines of the same type over the network. However being domain machines they all have to be named/IP-ed differently. Does WDS (RIS) have this ability or is there some other process that can be spawned after RIS runs to do the re-naming and joining to the domain? Basically I want all the functionality of Ghost, but am tired of fighting Ghost to get the end results. Thank you.

Straytoasters

Using WDS with the microsoft deployment toolkit will get you what you want