Zoom7000 Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Is it possible to make a computer run RIS from a central location? E.g. At the moment, to rebuild a machine using RIS, you need to boot up the machine, press F12 to boot in from the network, enter Admin credentials, pick the image and press Enter twice.Is there any way to automate this so that you can rebuild computers from a centrally managed location rather than having to physically visit each machine?Zoom7000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountgunner Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 The F12 is easy.Go to "remoteinstall\OSChooser\i386" and delete the "startcom.com" and rename "startrom.n12" to "startrom.com". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 As to getting images installed automagically once they've booted up, you'll need to prestage the client machine accounts in RIS, and specify an image for each computer account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom7000 Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 As to getting images installed automagically once they've booted up, you'll need to prestage the client machine accounts in RIS, and specify an image for each computer account.How would I go about implementing this? i.e How do I prestage the client machine accounts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Create a machine object for the machine in question in AD, and you will see that in the properties of the object, there is a Remote Installation tab - you can do quite a bit in there to tell the machine account which image it should gather, and from which server (if you have more than 1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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