Network Installation
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Hi all, I'd like a little help. I am writing a Setup program and have come up against the problem of installation over a network. The program currently works perfectly installing on Windows machines locally but I am trying to consider how a network admin might install across a network. Currently the setup would require individual installations on each machine due to the fact that local registries are set by the setup program. I guess what I'm asking is, what is best? Do network admins usually install systems individually or is there a method of cascade installation which can be applied? Many thanks u6ik
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Hi all, I'd like a little help. I am writing a Setup program and have come up against the problem of installation over a network. The program currently works perfectly installing on Windows machines locally but I am trying to consider how a network admin might install across a network. Currently the setup would require individual installations on each machine due to the fact that local registries are set by the setup program. I guess what I'm asking is, what is best? Do network admins usually install systems individually or is there a method of cascade installation which can be applied? Many thanks u6ik
u6ik wrote: Do network admins usually install systems individually In windows this is the case. But there are tricks we sometimes use to do a full install of all applications then mirror the disk and use special software to make windows create a new uid for the machine. However this generally only works on very similar systems (same hardware). John
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u6ik wrote: Do network admins usually install systems individually In windows this is the case. But there are tricks we sometimes use to do a full install of all applications then mirror the disk and use special software to make windows create a new uid for the machine. However this generally only works on very similar systems (same hardware). John
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Thanks for the feedback. My favourite kind of problem... A problem that's not a problem. Looks like I'm onto testing ;) Cheers u6ik
One thing you can do to make it less work for network admins is to allow the media to be copied (not installed) to a server share and then installed individually from there to each pc instead of having to carry a cd around to 1000 computers. In some places (my hospital) we have computers without cds so allowing pcs to be installed in this way is essential. John
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One thing you can do to make it less work for network admins is to allow the media to be copied (not installed) to a server share and then installed individually from there to each pc instead of having to carry a cd around to 1000 computers. In some places (my hospital) we have computers without cds so allowing pcs to be installed in this way is essential. John