Training room setup

[Guest]

I have 10 notebook computers and a server that will be used in a training
environment. The server is running W2K3 Server, Exchange 2003 and the laptops
are on XP Professional with Office 2003 installed. Basically I want to
reinstall each system following the completion of a course so that there are
no hidden surprises for the next student. Any ideas on the quickest way to do
this? The XP Professional is OEM and came with the laptops and we have the
appropriate number of licenses for the Office 2003.

thanks

Scott

 

[dev]

/Scott/ said:

I have 10 notebook computers and a server that will be used in a training
environment. The server is running W2K3 Server, Exchange 2003 and the laptops
are on XP Professional with Office 2003 installed. Basically I want to
reinstall each system following the completion of a course so that there are
no hidden surprises for the next student. Any ideas on the quickest way to do
this? The XP Professional is OEM and came with the laptops and we have the
appropriate number of licenses for the Office 2003.

http://WWW.TERABYTEUNLIMITED.COM/

Restore the system image after each session.

 

[Guest]

thanks dev,

do you mean do a system restore? Or are you talking something like ghost
image?

Scott

 

[jeffrey]

Hi,

Create an image using somethng like Ghost, drive copy, etc. If all the
laptops are the same make and model, then when the once class is done, pop
in the image CD to re-image each system. On the average, should only take
about 15 minutes to re-image. Thats the quickest and simplest way.

JEff

 

[RJ]

Better yet, get Ghost Corporate and
reimage them that way. You could have all
10 computers imaged in less than an hour.

A CD might not be big enough to hold all the data of the
Ghost image.

 

[jeffrey]

Whenever I ghost my main system, it takes about 3 CD`s, with Nortons Ghost,
it setups the image format to span multiple CD`s. When I did a few projects
with the military, installing new Dell PC`s, some PC`s images were
corrupted, so we used the image CD`s, it took 3 to restore the base image.

Jeff