deploying wondows xp through group policy....

[Dooma]

I am trying to deploy win xp os from my active directory 2000 server. I
published the software in the group policy under computer configuration like
article 314953 in ms kb says even though I wanted to assign it but it is
fine. When I reboot the workstation that has 2000 pro on it, it says
installing xp and when I log in it show in the add/remove programs with only
the remove option.

What did do wrong?

I want to upgrade every workstation in the office and group policy is the
best way to do that. I have 3 questions:

1. Can I use group policy to upgrade every 2k pro workstation?
2. Can I do that w/o any user intervention?
3. Can I do that w/o the user entering the product key?

Please help. I am running out time.

 

[Roberto Ruiz]

Hey, maybe I´m not so well informed, but as long as I know, software
deployment through GPO is not aimed at installing OSes, only applications.
To do a massive upgrade like this, you should try RIS (if you want to wipe
clean your woksations and have the apropriate hardware), or if you´re only
uggrading the OS, not applications, you could create a distribution point on
the network and perform an unattended install based on an unattend.txt-style
script, I have used them very succesfully. Only problem here is that users
must log on with administrative privileges to their own workstations.
Hope this helps,
Robert

Roberto Ruiz
Brainbench MVP for WinNT Workstation
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