[wpkg-users] Re : Question about multi-domain environment

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Karl schrieb:
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> To explain myself a bit more in details we offer services to several 
> domains (around 20) so each of them is another 'company'. I can't call 
> it a company but more a mini-company into a big company let's say.
> 
> So everything works on Windows so no Linux or other is used. All the 
> clients are WindowsXP users. Later on (around 2009) maybe Vista will 
> come but for now it's only Windows XP Pro.
> 
> The goal we want to achieve is that we can stage machines here at our 
> bench with a WPKG environment or elsewhere with a sort of bootable DVD 
> (with a fully equiped WPKG environment if it needs one).
> We'll install the client to have more options and the ease of deploy maybe.
> Now when a computer crashes, the user can't work anymore and a solution 
> must come so I looking for a method to install Windows XP again from 
> scratch for that computer. That's one of the goals.

I think you're trying to reinvent the wheel. If you're a Windows-only 
shop with Windows servers, read about RIS and group policies. And use 
WPKG after the operating system is deployed.

Another, more flexible option is to use Unattended - 
http://unattended.sf.net


> Another is to deploy applications with groups that were grouped by 
> company or managers or ...

Seems like profiles in WPKG.


> Also deploy some software on a computer after an installation of the OS 
> has been done.

RIS / Unattended.



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Tomasz Chmielewski
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