Hi folks,
I've been reading a lot about this subject lately. Primarily becouse i'm setting up a test environment with MS WDS to deploy universal XP images to computers with different hardware. (i'm a 'junior' system administrator and i want to automate and speed up re-installation of laptops/computers using WDS.
While reading through all these posts i started forming a small "todo" list for creating a standard/universal image that is hardware independend (with hal-detection).
Please tell me if i'm completely wrong about this (i probaply are)
- Install VM and create a Virtual drive
- make a clean XP install
- install software (Office, Virusscan, stuff like that)
- run updates
- run offlinesysprep
- integrate additional drivers from the driverpacks(?)
- run sysprep (is this needed after OSP?)
- boot using pxe-boot and create image (.wim) with WDS (this i tested with a dell optiplex 330, works great!)
am i thinking in the general 'good' direction here?
well, thanks in advance! Hope to learn a lot from you guys 