Central Deployment of RIS Images

[Carrotman]

Hi

I have 25 machines that require re-imaging every day (I manage a training center and the images have different sets of software)

Currently I have to go around to every machine to do this - resulting in me applying 125 images per week!

Is there anything out there that will allow me to push the images out from the server to groups of machines rather than pulling the image from the client?

Thanks

[cluberti]

You can do some of this with RIS:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServe...3.mspx?mfr=true

But it's not completely automatic if you have any choices required by the client or the client is not completely prestaged in AD. However, if you add Ghost to the mix:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost...000042011340125

Just remember that disk imaging can be a "bad thing" on differing hardware, so it's best to test it out before going feet-first into any disk imaging routine.