Please for help..... Intresting question Read it!!!

[NoFear]

Hi to all ,

please would you be so kind and forward this email to Michael K.H. Au-Yeung
or even start that kind of tread on our forum. (this will also come good to
somebody else not just me)

I work in PC company ( we have own server what is very important that you
know) which have own production of PC`s.
So when our service guy who put togeter PC`s finish some PC have to load it
up
with Win XP Pro Corp/Oem for test only.If customer buy Win XP leave it up
othervise del it from PC.
Almost every PC have diferent configuration , what I would like to ask
Michael
K.H. Au-Yeung is:

How could I creat Image with SIF for Corporate and Oem ver.that our service
guy ( Gorči-his name ) from productine line would just put LAN network cable
in PC (here we have to know that we use diferent network cards 10/100 or
1000)
and Win XP would setup itself from our network server.

Every PC should have diferent random name( Administrator1,.....)
And after instal. pc should be loaded with ADMIN writes.
PC should get DHCP from network itself

I know that this should be intresting for a lot of folks in our forum..

best regards
NoFear

[war59312]

Example:

Code:

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition = "0"
    MsDosInitiated = "0"
    UnattendedInstall = "Yes"
    AutomaticUpdates = "Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode = "FullUnattended"
    FileSystem = *
    OemSkipEula = "Yes"
    OemPreinstall = "Yes"
    UnattendSwitch = "Yes"
    TargetPath = "\WINNT"
    Repartition = "No"
    WaitForReboot = "No"
    CrashDumpSetting = "0"
    DUDisable = "Yes"
    DriverSigningPolicy = "Ignore"
    Hibernation = "No"

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword = ""
    EncryptedAdminPassword = "No"
    OEMSkipRegional = "1"
    TimeZone = "35"
    OemSkipWelcome = "1"

[UserData]
    ProductID = ""
    FullName = "Will"
    OrgName = "NewbiesLair"
    ComputerName = *

Since you want computer name to be different everytime than you would need to set it up after installing windows via batch file, runonceex, vbs script, etc.

[Display]
    ConfigureAtLogon = "1"
    BitsPerPel = "32"
    Xresolution = "1024"
    YResolution = "768"
    Vrefresh = "85"
    AutoConfirm = "1"

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode = "1"
    AreaCode = ""

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup = "WORKGROUP"

If u want to join a workgroup or domain you can add it here.

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents = "No"

[NetAdapters]
    Adapter1 = "params.Adapter1"

[params.Adapter1]
    INFID = *

[NetProtocols]
    MS_TCPIP = "params.MS_TCPIP"

[params.MS_TCPIP]
    AdapterSections = "params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1"
    DNS = "No"
    UseDomainNameDevolution = "No"
    EnableLMHosts = "No"

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
    SpecificTo = "Adapter1"
    DNSServerSearchOrder = "4.2.2.1,4.2.2.2"
    DHCP = "Yes"
    WINS = "No"
    NetBIOSOptions = "2"

You could setup the dhcp information right there like I do. :)

[Components]
    AccessOpt = "Off"
    Charmap = "Off"
    Chat = "Off"
    Clipbook = "Off"
    Deskpaper = "Off"
    dialer = "Off"
    Fax = "Off"
    freecell = "Off"
    hearts = "Off"
    Hypertrm = "Off"
    Indexsrv_system = "Off"
    Media_clips = "Off"
    Media_utopia = "Off"
    minesweeper = "Off"
    Mousepoint = "On"
    msmsgs = "Off"
    msnexplr = "Off"
    pinball = "Off"
    Rec = "Off"
    solitaire = "Off"
    spider = "Off"
    Templates = "Off"
    TerminalServer = "Off"
    WMAccess = "Off"
    zonegames = "Off"

[NetServices]
    MS_Server = params.MS_Server

[Shell]
    CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\Storm\Storm.msstyles"
    DefaultStartPanelOff = "Yes"
    DefaultThemesOff = "No"

[WindowsFirewall]
    Profiles = "WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall"

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]
    Mode = "0"

[IEPopupBlocker]
    AllowedSites = *
    BlockPopups = "Yes"
    FilterLevel = "Medium"
    ShowInformationBar = "Yes"

[GuiRunOnce]
    %systemdrive%\install\Update.cmd

Well hope that gives u some sort of idea. See then using update.cmd you can rename all the computers.

Of course you can setup a domain controler and setup shared network directory but not sure if you could make windows automatticly install from the network. Maybe you could using some batch installer? You can at least download it from the network and install.

[NoFear]

thanks for information man


best to all

[TRYJAY]

norton has a utility to do that over lan, just don't remeber the name atm.