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Starting with the disclaimer of "I haven't done this, but..."

I just reviewed the discussion, albeit a brief one, in Windows 2000 Administrator's Black Book, 2ed, along with the Windows Help discussion of Remote Installation Service (RIS), and bits of the Resource Kit. While there are a few alternative methods available, the simplest seems to be:

Install Windows 2000 Pro on a new machine, along with any applications to be distributed. Share this on a network with a server running RIS. Run the Remote Installation Wizard (part of the Win2K Resource Kit) to create an image from the new installation and save the image in a RIS folder on the server. This strips from the image any machine-specific settings, including the SID and product ID. You then create an answer file to be used for the remote installations which provides answers to all the steps you'd normally respond to manually on each installation.

For each client you create a boot floppy that starts the machine in a network accessible state and run Winnt32 with command line options that direct it to use the network share containing the answer file and the image created for RIS. This will prepare the hard drive and download the image to each client, and the individual machines will be configured by Plug-and Play for minor hardware variations. There are methods to fully automate the process, by including the unique license keys for each machine on the floppies, but I didn't delve into it that deeply. This is a case when an investment in the Resource Kit is definitely justified, as this is where the most information, and the tools to automate the task are found.

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