Archive for February 15th, 2005
Trials and tribulations with RIS
After a few weeks developing my unattended PC build using physical PCs, today I needed to deploy a virtual PC (VPC). It should be simple to boot a VPC to a Remote Installation Services (RIS) server and apply an image as normal, but in case anyone else out there is googling to find out why [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2005 under OS deployment, Windows XP.
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Installing applications silently (or at least quietly)
As part of the ongoing development of my unattended Windows XP build, I need to install core applications without any user intervention. Anybody who has attempted any form of application packaging will know that it is something of a black art and whilst many applications install with standard InstallShield/MSIExec command line switches, quite a few [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2005 under OS deployment.
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