Does anyone have any advice on automating windows updates and hotfixes into a image creation process. Management of course wants us to be able to boot with a CD then walk away and come back to a image on our newest standard machine. We are using a combination of unattend, SDA and so forth. We need to automate the hotfixes with the easiest solution possible. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
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If it's Win2000 and WinXP, set up a SUS Server.
You configure the SUS Automatic Update client on the desktop to point to this server. When a new patch is released, you'll install it on the SUS server, and it will be distributed to the desktops. (You can deploy patches long after you've imaged the desktop.)
The main problem with this in your situation is that it might take a few reboots for ALL the patches to get installed. But you won't have to touch it again, and you will be starting from your base image which will probably already have a lot of updates.
My environment needs raw speed in reimaging, so we don't use MS's tools. We go with a more raw approach. Ghost + newSID + custom scripts to join the domain and push patches. We have to redo the ghost image pretty frequently, but we almost never have to troubleshoot software problems at the desktop.
You configure the SUS Automatic Update client on the desktop to point to this server. When a new patch is released, you'll install it on the SUS server, and it will be distributed to the desktops. (You can deploy patches long after you've imaged the desktop.)
The main problem with this in your situation is that it might take a few reboots for ALL the patches to get installed. But you won't have to touch it again, and you will be starting from your base image which will probably already have a lot of updates.
My environment needs raw speed in reimaging, so we don't use MS's tools. We go with a more raw approach. Ghost + newSID + custom scripts to join the domain and push patches. We have to redo the ghost image pretty frequently, but we almost never have to troubleshoot software problems at the desktop.
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