HELP: WEPOS Mass Deployment Strategy

[anandsubr]

I am in desperate need for some pointers. We have purchased 110
licenses for WEPOS and need to create a strategy for deployment.
Somehow no one realized that WEPOS does not support the Embedded
Studio.

I now have the following task in front of me:

1. Install WEPOS on one source machine
2. Configure the source machine for all drivers and custom application
3. Create an image on CDROM
4. Deploy it in all the 110 machines


1& 2 have been accomplished. I am stuck in 3 and 4. The machines will
be on a network where they do not need to have any specific name. Can
someone please help?

Thanks in Advance

 

[Martin Grossen, eMVP [AVNET Silica]]

Hi

There is a spezial NG for WePOS:

microsoft.public.windows.embedded.pointofservice

You can deploy a WepOS System as a normal XP Professional.
You can use also WinPE or network based installations
like RIS deployment.
Of course, the standard unattend.xml is also available.

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Martin Grossen, eMVP

AVNET EMG Silica
Franchise Manager Microsoft Embedded Europe

Your competent partner for Microsoft Embedded licencing

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[anandsubr]

Thanks Martin. I tried looking for the
microsoft.public.windows.embedded.pointofservice NG but could not find
it to join into it. I might be doing something wrong.

Can I user Ghost to create a cd image after fbreseal?

 

[Martin Grossen, eMVP [AVNET Silica]]

Yes, this is posible.
but only on machines with the same HW.

You have also to take care about the SID (System Identification).
When you clone the systems after FBA, every system has the
same SID. This is a problem, when you are using the systems
in a network.

There are some tools available to change the SID afterwards.
(www.sysinternals.com)


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Martin Grossen, eMVP

AVNET EMG Silica
Franchise Manager Microsoft Embedded Europe

Your competent partner for Microsoft Embedded licencing

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