RIS Server crash

[James S. Borg]

We had a Windows 2000 Server that was operating as our Remote Installation
Server, deploying Windows XP SP1, crash. The Volume the OS is on is fine. We
can boot the box, however the directory containing the RIS images is gone.
We were also deploying Office 2003 from this server using this as the
Administrative installation point, this is gone as well. We only have an old
backup which has the RIS images but we have lost our Office 2003 Custom
Installation.

We are considering creating a new RIS server running Windows 2003, this time
having it in the backup routine. The questions are can I restore the old
images to this new server or should I restore them to the old server first
and then create the 2003 server, copying the necessary file from the old one
then? Is there a way I can point my XP clients to this new RIS server so
that if they ever need the windows xp installation source files they can
access them from the new server, instead of looking for the old one. And can
I do the same thing for the Office 2003 clients.

Any other suggestions not covered here would be appreciated.

Thanks,
James Borg

 

[Jorge Silva]

Hi

Inline

We had a Windows 2000 Server that was operating as our Remote Installation
Server, deploying Windows XP SP1, crash. The Volume the OS is on is fine.
We can boot the box, however the directory containing the RIS images is
gone.

How that happened?
to Windows XP image on a Windows 2000 RIS
How to Deploy Windows XP Images from Windows 2000 RIS Servers
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304314

The questions are can I restore the old images to this new server or
should I restore them to the old server first and then create the 2003
server, copying the necessary file from the old one then?

- Install the new Windows 2003 -> add to the Domain -> Install RIS.
- recover ONLY THE IMAGES FOLDERS to the right path
- run the RIS setup to deploy the First (default) at the end of the Setup
choose the option to replace the old Answers Files, this action will replace
the old Ris answers files with the new Windows 2003 answers files.
- If you have any custom answer file, you can change it after this

Is there a way I can point my XP clients to this new RIS server so that if
they ever need the windows xp installation source files they can access
them from the new server, instead of looking for the old one. And can I do
the same thing for the Office 2003 clients.

I never tried this but you can (After demoting the Win 2000) give the new
server the same name that you had on the old Win 2000.


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I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator

 

[Vincent Xu [MSFT]]

Hi James ,

Jorge provided detailed information abouit migrate RIS server.

Regarding your last question, the Windows source file location is stored in
Registry key at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SourcePath

You can also simply modify this value to change the path.

Hopt this helps.


Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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