Re: XP SP2 Blind install

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:53:27 -0800
To: Focus-MS <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

Well, no let's not close the thread.

Mike,
Detail what you did to get it to work, where are the resources you
used? What steps did you take? This is incredibly important
information for all us sysadmins out here.

Doing a roll-out to 9000 machines transparently is quite a feat, major
Kudos on your success.

What was the fail-rate though? Out of 9000 there's must have been a
few failures.

Microsoft has lots of data on this process but it's singularly poorly
done on their support site(s). For basic installations and sysprepped
installs I had to basically figure things out myself for the org I
worked for but I never did learn how to do SP installs that way.

Please enlighten the rest of us before you leave. That's the purpose
of these forums, to increase the general knowledge.

Sincerely,

music2myear

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:55:39 +0100, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers
<bugtraq@planetcobalt.net> wrote:
> On 2005-01-06 mike@genxweb.net wrote:
> > We are planning to start upgrading to xp sp2 in the next few months
> > but one of the biggest issues we are having is that we want it to be a
> > blind install. Basically we do not want the users to be prompted after
> > the reboot to configure anything ( no option to turn on auto updates,
> > no questions about the firewall, and so on) we also want to send it
> > out with the firewall turned off ( we think we got this covered in our
> > GPL but will have to test it).
> >
> > Any ideas be much appreciated
>
> SP2 can be installed fully unattended (see command-line switches), so
> installation should not be an issue. Automatic updates, firewall
> settings et al. can be configured thru group policies (either domain or
> local). The only issue I had with applying policies before rolling out
> SP2 was longer strings causing warning messages, which can be fixed by a
> separate update (though I can't remember off the top of my head which
> one it was).
>
> I would apply the policies to a few (test)machines, install SP2 and see
> what happens. That should be sufficient to detect GP related problems.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
> Ansgar Wiechers
> --
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> deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
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