Sn00f Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Hi, I work in a school and we would like to buy or try a deployment tool.We have 600+ machines actually on w2k, several hardware, and several variety of software.Users have user rights, some power user rights...We actually use Norton Ghost 7.5 Corporate edition, but this doesn't do all the job we want.Is there a simple tool for deploy patches, hotfixes (kbXXXXXX, qXXXXXX )on client machines without tell the user to click somewhere or do something. They just don't have to do anything ( don't even see what happens if this exists (silent install)). And also we would like to know if these patches were deployed or not (logs or something like that).I'm new to this technology, and didn't try another tool than ghost.Could someone help me please?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrp2171 Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Check out this article:http://www.nwc.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18402738And check out this Google search:http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+pat...=utf-8&oe=utf-8Also, you might qualify for a free subscription to Network Computing magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButlerKevinD Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Hi, I work in a school and we would like to buy or try a deployment tool.We have 600+ machines actually on w2k, several hardware, and several variety of software.Users have user rights, some power user rights...We actually use Norton Ghost 7.5 Corporate edition, but this doesn't do all the job we want.Is there a simple tool for deploy patches, hotfixes (kbXXXXXX, qXXXXXX )on client machines without tell the user to click somewhere or do something. They just don't have to do anything ( don't even see what happens if this exists (silent install)). And also we would like to know if these patches were deployed or not (logs or something like that).I'm new to this technology, and didn't try another tool than ghost.Could someone help me please?Thanks in advance.Using Software Updates Services on an existing Win2k/Win2k3 server can deploy all of the critical updated needed by your workstations. To be more granular, Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 will do the same as well as the non-critical updates. Ghost really only works well if the machines are of the same hardware type, and as you stated, some are, some aren't. With the SUS and SMS2k3, you can have the updates sent to the workstations without user intervention if i am not mistaken. SUS really dosen't keep easy to read logs of what updates were deployed, but SMS2k3 does have reporting capablilites with it. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn00f Posted April 19, 2004 Author Share Posted April 19, 2004 thank you for your help.I didn't know there were so many tools like that lol, think I got some days to read all that mess I'll give backup as soon as I have answers :-)BBL :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miphnik Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 You might want to give Altiris's line of product a look over.www.altiris.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn00f Posted October 27, 2004 Author Share Posted October 27, 2004 Sorry for this late answer, I forgot the post :/My company finaly decided to buy Norton ghost corporate 8.0, which is not the best I think, but anyway...I have to use this one ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oioldman Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I can highly recommend a product called Criston Precision.Very simple to use, does everyting you want, incS/W & H/W inventorysoftware install / removalremote controldirect access of pc to change registry, services, hddI use to deploy to over 500+ PC and never a glitchI know another company uses it ffor 35000, (yes that is correct), PC's.go to http://criston.com for further info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarod670 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 We just started using Sysprep with Ghost and have been pretty happy so far. If you have just one image that you need to deploy to different hardware platforms this works great. I work in a hospital, and have about 10 different models to work with. We made one base image, then push all of the updates out with SUS. We are looking forward to finally getting Active Directory up and using more of the server 2k3 tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jshaw Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Hey, if you have nt4, 2000,2003 servers, then you can use a tool caled RIS (Remote Installation Services). You just type in risetup.exe into the run box at the start menu. If you use nt4server (this only works on nt4server) you can goto start ->run-> and type ncadmin.exeIf you have the nt4 server disk, you can then goto the i386 folder on the cd and copy all the files in the directory that inclue the name ncadmin.Then copy all the files to a seperate folder on your hard drive and type in the start, run box <path to files> expand ncadmin.exe<all versions>Then just follow the step by step instructions but in ncadmin, select make network boot disk (or something to that effect). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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