Rui

[turnipfarmer]

hey there,

anybody of you techs know the ropes of Remote Unattended Installations of Windows NT? [img]images/smiles/converted/lookaround.gif[/img] got problems embedding MS Office in that.

thanks.

<FONT>[ October 18, 2001 10:17 AM: 1 turnipfarmer ]</font>

[Anthony]

the first time, you have to have the latest service pack installed.

[turnipfarmer]

thanks for the quick reply, AnthonyG.
the Office installation directly follows the SP. but without rebooting. do you think there’s the rub?

how can I manage automated installation of Office and other applications after reboot & and not having to login manually?

[turnipfarmer]

*leaving out the "-z" parameter at the SP command, restarting installation and waiting what to happen* [img]images/smiles/converted/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Anthony]

are you trying to just install multiple office installations over a lan ?

[turnipfarmer]

I’m trying to prepare multiple server and client installations for rollouts per remote from a file server by booting the machines to be installed on with a diskette that connects ’em to the data server from which the installations run.

my job is to compose a completely unattended install package with as much software included as possible. I wanna install NT, ServicePack, Office, Notes, IE, Exchange, Norton AntiVirus… on a single run without having to make any user inputs.

the modified SP command lines doesn’t yield the desired result. [img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img]

<FONT>[ October 19, 2001 03:46 AM: 1 turnipfarmer ]</font>

[Anthony]

i’d add a hd to the file server with everything on it, os, software, service packs everything. then i’d ghost the image of that drive to another part of the hd. use a network startup disk on the clients. you can run ghost from w2kserver to roll out copies of the hd image to the clients all at the same time and you can just sit back and smoke doobies and watch.

[turnipfarmer]

thanks for the info, Anthony.

I already had in mind to handle the task by using images. but the aim is to build up a file server from which you can install several software packages consisting of different systems and applications. and as this server should be used for rollouts at various customers with different requirements, imaging is not the best solution. rui fits more as you can match the customer’s needs by only editing the answer files.

I checked some literature in the last days and figured it out how to solve my problem. there is a difference tool on the winnt cd. you can build an .inf file by making snapshots of the system without Office (or other applications) and another with Office installed. then use the tool a third and last time to record the difference in the .inf file that in the end contains the office installation. very clever! [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]

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