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what is the riprep.exe
does anyone know how to explain it in breef
does anyone know how to explain it in breef
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george
michael said:
riprep is 'short' for Remote Installation PREPared.
What happens here is that one installs and configures a machine with XP,
adds the needed applications and configures them for use and set up anything
else they need on that box.
Now you basically have a machine, ready to go into production.
Wouldn't it be nice if you had a way of deploying *this* setup onto multiple
machines?
Well, that is possible with 3rd party stuff like Ghost, or Image Cast, etc.
But MS has such functionality in the form of, you guessed it, riprep.
What this does is take an image of this machine and write that image to a
server(share), eliminating any machine specific definitions, like most
notably the computer name. In order to be able to cater for that ommision
later on it alters the image (slightly) in a way that when the image is
started up the first time after deployment, there is a mini-setup that runs
and that asks for a computer name (amongst a couple of other things.)
This last step is something the 3rd party products (to mu knowledge) do not
take care of.
breef enough for you?
)george