PhilBon

I'm the Tech Guy for about 1000 and I was wondering if anyone knows of an imaging program where I have all 1000 clients connected to a server/console and when I want to reimage one I just have to select the computer in the console and hit "image" (or something like it) and it'll allow me to select an image that I can put onto the machine? Possibly have it retain it's computer name so I don't have to set that up.

Network Booting:
Anyone know of a Network Booting software for Windows Server. Where computers would connect to the software and then be able to boot?

nnxion

I thought Norton Ghost did this, I don't think it works with SATA yet.

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babbling

Seems like it'd be pretty difficult to make it retain its hostname, since that would be stored on the disk image that you're uploading to it. I'd suggest making the hostname something like "CONFIGME" so that you can see which computers need to be configured.

An alternative to this would be writing a script that collects a hostname (and potentially other configuration info) from a server you control when it first boots. I'm unfamiliar with Windows, so I don't know how feasible this would be, or whether there are any programs that already do it, but it is probably worth considering.

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Cache

There is hardly enough info in your post to rate the relevance of this, but perhaps you should look into RIS:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...lt_topnode.htm

mackenga

Norton (or is it Symantec now?) Ghost can handle the imaging just fine, although you can't image a machine remotely from some sort of management console as far as I know. Finding and changing the machine name can indeed be done with JavaScript - or more accurately Microsoft's bastardised version, JScript - using WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). You can find out about that at Microsoft's site. Although it's not a tiny topic and you won't pick it up in an afternoon (unless you're /very/ quick), I think if you're the admin for 1000 machines any time spent learning WMI (and ADSI) will pay for itself many times over in the years to come.

Good luck!