Hey List. So, we're looking at deployment options for Vista.
Looking at Microsoft's Windows Deployment Services (WDS), and found it to be very complicated... So, I've got a base WinPE 2.0 up and running, and now have imagex.exe accessible from a server. (Maybe later I'll get it in the PE itself, but this is good for now.) I can Sysprep a Vista machine, and make an image of it... works great... but I want to automate it a little bit more. I took a look at how Sysprep does things differently from XP to Vista... Whoa boy... new XML file format and everything! Okay, but what are the settings I can set? WDS's Windows System Image Manager seems to be the Microsoft Prescribed method of creating an unattended.xml file... but the documentation is... well... WDS centered. I don't want all that. I just want to make a self-imaged system to be easier to start up. If I could, I'd only ask that the OOBE ask me for the machine's name, then do everything else... including bind to the domain. I've seen some example unattended.xml files on the web, but nothing that seems easy enough for me to digest. Any good resources for Vista Syspreping? Anybody here have experiance with this without going through the entire WDS process? --Matt Ross ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
