Flashcore Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 It appears astho MS has now decided that they dont like all of the 3rd party products for doing unattended installs so now they release there own free product (Registration Required). So far it looks pritty complete too.Microsoft Desktop Deployment CenterHas anyone else had a chance to look at this and found any problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireKosh Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Is this a software program or a web site cuase all i have founf is a web site ???any info would be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashcore Posted November 23, 2004 Author Share Posted November 23, 2004 If you click on the "Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment " link on the site you can download 2 different applications the smaller of the two basicly lets you make a full unattended install. I havent finished downloading the second one yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmn Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 any special in this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmx Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 thanx for the info will test it later today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfincher Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 I have been moderately surprised for some time that no one seems to notice when Microsoft does something so very right as the release of the latest BDD Solution Accelerator Standard & Enterprise Editions. These toolsets are the natural progression of the original release approximately a year prior to the release of the latest tools on November 15.The documentation, the scripts, and the complete unattend build environment is very well designed so that corporations can produce a master desktop image, and automate the entire desktop deployment process.I have a vested interest in the product having toured the world in the last 3 years training 1000's of Microsoft customers in the tools used in desktop deployment. This particular offering really does go a long way towards providing a complete deployment scenario as well as the tools to craft it.Technologies used and described in great detail (in no certain order) are:User State Migration ToolWindows PE 2004RIS (to deliver Windows PE)SysprepUnattended setupImaging - Ghost, PQIdeploy, SMS OS DeploymentApplication CompatibilityApplication PackagingSecurityLite-Touch Deployment (someone has to "kick off" deployment)Zero-Touch Deployment (uses SMS 2003 to deploy XP w/o direct user intervention)Zero-Touch Provisioning (large enterprises use these tools to provision users & computers - best implemented as moving otherwise admin tasks to the user for self-provisioning)I actually sent in an announcement of the toolset as a news article for the front page, but it wasn't deemed by the moderators as worthy of the front page, but...Give it a thorough look - one of its best features is that it does encapsulate best practices as well as a well tested solution that can be installed and used almost w/o customization.XPAdddict Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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