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[Geoff Durham]

I am looking for some advice on best practice to implement a menu based system to deploy OS's to different hardware platforms.

I have created a number of unattended install jobs (based on different hardware) and several modular based configuration, application install and security jobs to modify the default Windows install.

My question:

How can I distribute the unattended install as well as the appropriate jobs to a new server based on the hardware platform.

e.g. New HP BL20p running Windows 2000 - User chooses "BL20p (win2000)" config from a menu system and the appropriate jobs start executing in sequence.

I have seen that Altiris doesn't recommend the "Initial Deployment" method for systems above 10 computers.

I have also had a bit of a play with Virtual PCs but my first attempt seemed to put the client into a infinite reboot cycle after running the first job (unattended install).

Any thoughts/ideas/recommendations?

Regards,

Geoff.

[Ken Henault]

Look at the SYSTYPE utility. It's documented in ssstkug.pdf in the deploy\tools\ssst directory on your RDP server.