Microsoft`s Strategy to Centralize and Manage Automated Installations: SMS 2003 - Another Feature Pack from Microsoft to ease SMS deployments
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Microsoft has recently released a special pack to ease the OS installations called SMS OS Deployment Feature Pack. The SMS OS Deployment Feature Pack is an image-based solution that lets you deploy Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 Server from your SMS infrastructure.
The most important issue to consider before working with this special pack is that we need to apply SMS 2003 service pack 1 to the site server and also to the entire site (all workstations, clients, secondary sites, and so on). The OS Deployment Feature Pack uses Windows Imaging Format, which is going to be a standard Microsoft imaging technology from now on. You can download the OS Deployment Feature Pack at http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/downloads/2003/osdfp.asp.
The following links will be helpful to you in learning more about installing and configuring SMS site server.
SMS 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide, http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/sms/2003/all/cpdg/en-us/default.mspx
SMS Scripting guide, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/
maintain/smsscript/default.mspx
SMS 2003 Operations guide, http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/sms/2003/all/opsguide/en-us/default.mspx
a SMS Roaming Demo, http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/techinfo/productdoc/media/acr.htm
Technical FAQs, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/techfaq/default.mspx
What is new in SMS 2003 sp1, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/whatsnew.mspx
Be sure to check out my upcoming article on installing and configuring SMS 2003. Any suggestions are well appreciated at jag_chat@yahoo.com
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