A little advice please

[ctconline]

Please forgive my ignorance as I am new here (this is my first post). Even if you could direct me to a thread that helps me that would be great. Here is my situation.

We have about 150 workstations that are currently running Windows 2000 Professional and we are in the process of upgrading them to XP SP2. Following is the process we have been doing so far:

1. Remove any spyware from the PC.

2. Run the Setup program from the XP SP1 CD (which we have dumped to a network share)

3. Choose Upgrade

4. Input the product key (open license)

5. After XP finishes we then install SP2

6. We then have to wait and choose not to Automatic Update & disable firewall.

I knew that there had to be an easier way and this is how I found this site. I haven't seen anything specific on here for upgrading. Is there a guide for preparing an upgrade unattended directly to SP2? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tsunami]

If the cd is on a network share, you can easily slipstream SP2 with the cd, and then run X:\I386\winnt32.exe /unattended

[ctconline]

Are there specific options for upgrades?

[ctconline]

Okay. My first attempt was a miserable failure. Everything seemed to be going fine but after the XP reboot, I lost remote communication to PC. After going to the PC, I realized that it was not doing an upgrade, but a new XP install. It was asking me if I wanted to format the partition or leave the file system as is. After exiting out of the setup I saw that I had the Windows 2000 Professional and the Windows XP Professional Setup as options.

Where did I go wrong? Please help.

[Alanoll]

If you're executing the winnt32.exe command, I think there is an upgrade switch, if not....

look at either winnt.sif reference on site, or ref.chm in the deploy tools, and look up Upgrade, and there should be an upgrade thing to add to your answer file.