Deploying XP Pro to multiple machines

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Bob

I'm volunteering my time to setup 25 new windows XP pro
machines for the local school. My thought was I would
build one from scratch, install XP and office and a few
other programs. I plan on then copying the the disk image
from one machine to another.

If I don't register XP until after the duplication of the
disks and for each machine I enter the valid license key
at registration - will this work... If not any other
advice on how to get all the machines running without
spending the hours to install 25 copies of the software
one machine at a time ?

Second question, is there a way to get to a usb disk drive
from a boot floppy - then I could just ghost the base
image and copy it onto each machine without removing the
hard drives to a third machine for duplication...
 
Bob said:
I'm volunteering my time to setup 25 new windows XP pro
machines for the local school. My thought was I would
build one from scratch, install XP and office and a few
other programs. I plan on then copying the the disk image
from one machine to another.

If I don't register XP until after the duplication of the
disks and for each machine I enter the valid license key
at registration - will this work... If not any other
advice on how to get all the machines running without
spending the hours to install 25 copies of the software
one machine at a time ?

Second question, is there a way to get to a usb disk drive
from a boot floppy - then I could just ghost the base
image and copy it onto each machine without removing the
hard drives to a third machine for duplication...
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For 25 new machines you should look into a volume license for them,
especially if they are going to be using both Windows XP and Office XP
on these machines.

You will get better prices and the volume license versions generally
use the same product key for all licensed copies.

See http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=HowToBuy

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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