Ghost V RIS

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well, its horses for courses innit ?

I mean, with RIS it's one partition only, and W2k Pro only (officially)

Ghost is more flexible in that regard.

RIS requires more time to complete too... but then again, its more flexible with hardware...

*shrug* depends on your needs surely?

 

AJ, do you have a lot of pc's that are identical? If so then here's what I do with our stuff. We have a lot of pc's that were bought at the same time so are all the same. We also have only one imaging program, Drive Image 5. Install it on one pc, make boot floppys or a boot cd with the imaging program. Then set up another pc with all the stuff you want on it and settings too. Then take an image of that pc and use it as your base install for all other pc's of the same type.

 

I adopt the same method as Nugget, only with ghost instead.

We have about 5 different 'batches' of PC's around the school, and run them all from a single 'core' ghost image.
Because of the different hardware setups in the batches we actually have five different images, but they all come form the same core image.

We then re-image all PC's each summer with the updated software for the next year.

If we have updates to apply during the year we will push them out overnight through MSI packages, so that students dont notice them.

Any new software that gets purchased during the year again gets pushed out as an MSI overnight.

As I make sure that all of the PC's across the school run the same software this approach works.