Windows 2003 Image Drop On New Server

[Moongate]

Hello everyone, This is my first time posting my topic and I hope to grow and learn from you all. Here is my first task that I need to have and learn from it.

We currently install Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 manually and then QC the server to change or update our Event logs, in Services would be such as license logging, World Web Publishing services, SNMP, install SP4 etc. Any idea how we can automate such items so that it will speed the installation. I would greatly appreciate if anyone has automate installing OS on there new server and willing to help me out or any direction to start my own. Thanks

[tguy]

@Moongate,

All of the things you are looking to do can be automated.

You can configure the Event Logs using a Security Template found in %SYSTEMROOT%\Security\Templates then apply them by running a batch file that calls secedit.exe with the appropriate command line switches so it knows which template file to use.

You can install and configure various services by selecting their components in the Components section of your unattend file. See the ref.chm or Unattend.doc in the Support Tools for either Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 respectively.

To install Service Pack 4 for Win2K, you can either slipstream it into the i386 source files or call the service pack for installation from the cmdlines.txt file.

I would suggest you start by reading the how-to guide on this forum's site if you haven't already done so.

Hope this helps. If you have any more questions you can PM me or put up another post.

[Moongate]

tguy,

Thank you so much for the information. I will go to that site that you recommanded and start reading. Thanks again.