[geeks] MS SBS Server - issues and questions

[Brian Dunbar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>From: Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at liftport.com>
>>Date: 2006/08/12 Sat PM 04:18:10 CDT
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: [geeks] MS SBS Server - issues and questions
> 
> 
>>Hey,
>>
>>I've picked up a part time job (hooray for keeping busy) with a local
>>integrator.  My role is to 'flip' his new clients from whatever ad-hoc
>>mess they'd been using* to SBS 2003.
>>
>>One of these is okay - but I can see that a great deal of my time is
>>going to be spent watching SBS install.  Naturally my mind turns to ways
>>to reduce the boring bits.
> 
> 
> Microsoft has a suite of tools to facilitate repetitive installs - the "OEM InstallPak" (or similar), which is designed to create an image, then unload it onto multiple machines off a server... Not sure how well it would handle varying hardware underneath, since it was designed for installing, say, SBS on to hundreds of identical boxes...

I'll track that down, thanks.

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Brian Dunbar
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Liftport - The Space Elevator Company

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