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advice for newbie on deployment

Guys we just got the K2000 box and I need to carry out an installation of windows 7 64bit Enterprise to 100 machines desktop & laptop also 50 machines on a remote site via RSA. We also need office 2010 installed. I got the following questions as the Jumpstart wasnt too informative and basic.

1. What do you recomend on a clean fresh install on the above requirement? Golden image or Scripted install?
2. I need to have each machine join the domain and go into specific ou in ad.
3. I heard about wsname. what is the syntax for logged in username and machine model. e.g. SmithE4300
4. We dont have the Managment box but I heard there is a way to install Office any ideas.


Any advice or direction to the answers for the above will be really appretiated guys.

Thank you.

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Posted by: airwolf 13 years ago
Red Belt
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1. An image will be easier and faster to setup than a scripted install. However, if you plan on using RSAs then Scripted Installs are better in the long run. A change to an image means you push the ENTIRE image out to the RSA. A change in a task in a scripted install means only that change is replicated to the RSA.

2. This can be done in either. You are either relying on sysprep configuration in an image or the scripted install config (basically still sysprep) or post-install task.

3. This is not a K2000 question, really. I'd suggest Googling for command line parameters.

4. In the case of the image, you would install Office before capturing the image. In the case of a scripted install, you would install Office as a post-installation task.
Posted by: jrscribner 13 years ago
Purple Belt
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Being new to KACE myself I don't have any true best practices but what I am currently working on is a very similar problem. Here is the recipe I am using:

1. Scripted Install - Seems to be more robust with the different hardware types. And this is the method the KACE guys always talk about
2. I've hack together a simple Powershell script to join computer to the domain and add to a specific OU:

$User = $args[0]
$Pass = ConvertTo-SecureString $args[1] -AsPlainText -Force
$Credentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $User,$Pass

Add-Computer -domainname <DOMAIN> -OUPath $args[2] -cred $Credentials

Restart-Computer

I have the <DOMAIN> set to our domain and I have a few variables that get passed in at runtime. There was another post in the Forum that helped with the starting a a PowerShell script from a command line so I create a Post Installation Application with my PowerShell as the file and run the following command:
powershell.exe -nologo -executionpolicy bypass -noprofile -file ATCCJoinDomain.ps1 "Domain\User" "Password" "OU=W7_Laptop,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM"

3. You'll find information about WSNAME at the authors web site: http://mystuff.clarke.co.nz/MyStuff/wsname.asp

4. You can install Office as a Post Installation Task by creating an answer file. Just run "setup.exe /admin" on the Office DVD create your answer file and zip that up with the installation files then create a post installation task with "setup.exe /adminfile file.msp"

Hope that helps
Posted by: cihan 13 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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This is very useful guys Thx. I am sure I ll be back for some more [:D]
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