Hello and thanks for a wonderful package of ease for system administration!
I'm at a new client to which I want to show the magic of unattended installations compared to ghosting, and it's working pretty well. However, the "apply patches and updates" procedure takes a fair amount of time, 1+ hour because of all the reboots. But as far as I can recall, the WindowsUpdate tool doesn't require that many reboots (or even that many patches?). I'm going to check how WindowsUpdate performs the updates and mimic that way (probably use .ignore-err on some updates) to minimize the time needed for re-install but I would love to see this go upstream as well in cvs. Would that be a possible change? On another note, I'm having problems figuring out the best way for system administration/maintenance here and would love to hear your thoughts: * Application installation Would the best way to go be to install as many packages as possible upon installation and then migrate them to AD-deployment after time? * Hotfixes Should I install WSUS and just use Unattended for OS-installation or should WSUS handle updates released after OS-installation only? Moreover, I can't seem to get the bootmenu from boot.ini to disappear using Unattended - is there some fix for this? I get a second option "Previous operating system" and a 30 second timeout... Also, here are some updates that have been released after the latest cvs-version of winxpsp2-updates.bat: :: Malicious Software Removal Tool - Apr. 2006 (KB890830) todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\common \Windows-KB890830-V1.15.exe /q" :: Security update for Windows XP (KB911562) todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB911562-x86-% WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart" :: Security update for Windows XP (KB908531) todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB908531-x86-% WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart" :: WMP 10 Update (KB911565) todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\mediaplayer10 \WindowsMedia10-KB911565-v2-x86-%WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart" :: OE Cumulative (KB911567) todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB911567-x86-% WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart" :: IE Cumulative (KB912812) todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB912812-x86-% WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart" :: Windows Installer 3.1 todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\common\%WINLANG% \WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe /passive /n /norestart" Thanks again for a wonderful project! /Patrik
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