Depoing new installation of WinXP

[Miha]

Hi

At our school we want to replace old computers with new ones (WindowsXP,
Office 2003 and some other internal applications).
We have more than 100 computers (all licences WinXP and Office 2003 are
enterprise agreement for school educations - no activation required just
serial number)
What is the right way to deploy this.. As far as I see we need to install
one computer with WinXP, join it in-to our local domain, configure all
services and then install all other applications. Then we create image of a
disk (with norton ghost) and deploy this image to other computers. I'm
wondering what happens with computer names (that must be different on
machines), SID and other security settings. As far as I have heard, we need
to run some kind of 'sysprep' application that makes possible to use image
on other computers.
Can anyone please explain me if we're correct and what exactly do we need to
do with this sysprep - what is the procedure of deploying images on
computers?
Thank you all in advance

Best regards
Miha

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

This should help:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/default.mspx

But yes, you basically have the steps down.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Miha]

Thanks
Regards
Miha

This should help:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/default.mspx

But yes, you basically have the steps down.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[NobodyMan]

Hi

At our school we want to replace old computers with new ones (WindowsXP,
Office 2003 and some other internal applications).
We have more than 100 computers (all licences WinXP and Office 2003 are
enterprise agreement for school educations - no activation required just
serial number)
What is the right way to deploy this.. As far as I see we need to install
one computer with WinXP, join it in-to our local domain, configure all
services and then install all other applications. Then we create image of a
disk (with norton ghost) and deploy this image to other computers. I'm
wondering what happens with computer names (that must be different on
machines), SID and other security settings. As far as I have heard, we need
to run some kind of 'sysprep' application that makes possible to use image
on other computers.
Can anyone please explain me if we're correct and what exactly do we need to
do with this sysprep - what is the procedure of deploying images on
computers?
Thank you all in advance

Best regards
Miha

You've got the basic steps down, but if you feel even the slightest
bit of trepidation over the migration, hire out a consultant to help.
It might well be cheaper in the long run to hire them to help deploy
than to screw up your roll-out and hire somebody to come in and fix it
all.

 

[Miha]

Thanks for a tip. I just figured out how to use this sysprep with image in a
test environment and everything is working fine, so we'll move into
production environment.
Regards
Miha