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[ATTech]

he sed this software will not restore an image on other computers only the computer where the image was taken from so any way to cut a long story short, they do not sell a universal deploy, after getting my point across I got a full refund.

That sounds completely off. If I'm reading you right, that's essentially saying that this deployment software is no different than imaging software? The idea behind deployment software is that you create an image on a reference machine and deploy it to multiple machines. The only possible explanation I can think of is that it's one license per machine, which would be impractical for a computer repair business, but I guess could fit for the target large organization. If I were you, I would call their sales line and explain your situation and ask them if snap deploy is a good solution. If not, I you could always go with imagex and other Microsoft solutions such as SCCM and MDT that are freely available for commercial use. Maybe I'll do a write up, a video tutorial or (eBook?) for using Microsoft's Deployment/Imaging solutions in a Computer repair business environment. The documentation available now (what little there is) is geared towards enterprises and large organizations.

 

[fixitdaz]

That sounds completely off. If I'm reading you right, that's essentially saying that this deployment software is no different than imaging software? The idea behind deployment software is that you create an image on a reference machine and deploy it to multiple machines. The only possible explanation I can think of is that it's one license per machine, which would be impractical for a computer repair business, but I guess could fit for the target large organization. If I were you, I would call their sales line and explain your situation and ask them if snap deploy is a good solution. If not, I you could always go with imagex and other Microsoft solutions such as SCCM and MDT that are freely available for commercial use. Maybe I'll do a write up, a video tutorial or (eBook?) for using Microsoft's Deployment/Imaging solutions in a Computer repair business environment. The documentation available now (what little there is) is geared towards enterprises and large organizations.

I Have gone the waik pe and imagex sysprep route I was looking for a way to make my life easer, so I am now brushing up on my Command-Line Syntax watched a couple of vids on tech ed ect we will get there, I only went to pc world because I was passing lessen learnt I will buy direct cut out the middle man who dose not no what he is selling.

 

[ATTech]

I Have gone the waik pe and imagex sysprep route I was looking for a way to make my life easer, so I am now brushing up on my Command-Line Syntax watched a couple of vids on tech ed ect we will get there, I only went to pc world because I was passing lessen learnt I will buy direct cut out the middle man who dose not no what he is selling.

That's the beauty of ImageX/Sysprep is that you aren't limited to propriety software that provides limited scripting support and interfacing with other programs. With a good amount of time, patience and programming/scripting knowledge, you can develop a system that can pretty much, not only automate the actually deployments, but automate updating the reference machines, automate repairs, etc.

 

[fixitdaz]

It looks a lot moor usable than most I am in the proses of putting together a cheat sheet to help me is there any good site that you no of that might be of use for Syntax scripting.Thanks.

 

[ATTech]

It looks a lot moor usable than most I am in the proses of putting together a cheat sheet to help me is there any good site that you no of that might be of use for Syntax scripting.Thanks.

I haven't found one single site that provides all the answers. If your just dealing with batch scripting, then there is a plethora of information across the web, just Google "Batch <SOMETHING>" if you need to figure out how to do something. If you're looking to learn VB based scripting (VBScript) then Microsoft's MSDN site has references for all the objects, methods, properties, etc, although that really requires some background programming knowledge.

 

[dbdawn]

ATTech, have you been able to get around XP and the different HAL's? I was in the middle of creating a XP universal image with sysprep but lost my work. How have you gone about it?
Thanks

 

[ATTech]

ATTech, have you been able to get around XP and the different HAL's? I was in the middle of creating a XP universal image with sysprep but lost my work. How have you gone about it?
Thanks

I apply the images in a WinPE environment, so after applying the image, I run a script that checks the HAL utilized in the WinPE registry, then modifies the sysprep.inf to include the appropriate UpdateHAL or UpdateUPHal property.