As a Canadian I find this posting a little ironic. Many Canadians themsevles leave the country in what the government refers to as a 'brain drain'. Most go to the US but others, like myself, go to Europe. Canada just can't compete on the pay scale that other counties offer plus you get a cultural experience that you wouldn't get at home.
I work for a small firm that does exactly this: Image identical IBMs with Ghost and use the sysprep tool to strip the SID. Where I find the bottle neck in deploying corporate PCs is in configuring an IP, renaming the PC, and adding to the domain. Yes, only 2 or 3 reboots but still it is time consuming. Anyone know of any work arounds?
These PCs are not imaged over the network using any kind of RIS server, but rather off-site and then brought to the end users desk. Takes about 30-45 minutes per PC as SMS is also installed and configured and other misc. apps...
I've tried to hunt it down as well. I have ExpressVu and notta on that. Looks like we'll have to wait until Space picks it up, or one of the movie channels like they did with Band of Brothers.
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As a Canadian I find this posting a little ironic. Many Canadians themsevles leave the country in what the government refers to as a 'brain drain'. Most go to the US but others, like myself, go to Europe. Canada just can't compete on the pay scale that other counties offer plus you get a cultural experience that you wouldn't get at home.
I work for a small firm that does exactly this: Image identical IBMs with Ghost and use the sysprep tool to strip the SID. Where I find the bottle neck in deploying corporate PCs is in configuring an IP, renaming the PC, and adding to the domain. Yes, only 2 or 3 reboots but still it is time consuming. Anyone know of any work arounds? These PCs are not imaged over the network using any kind of RIS server, but rather off-site and then brought to the end users desk. Takes about 30-45 minutes per PC as SMS is also installed and configured and other misc. apps...
I've tried to hunt it down as well. I have ExpressVu and notta on that. Looks like we'll have to wait until Space picks it up, or one of the movie channels like they did with Band of Brothers.