Jan 3 2010
Received and on chapter 2 of the Microsoft Press 70-270 book. I got stumped at the RIS portion as Ive never done fresh XP installs from a network. Been googling/Wiki'ing, no good news. I bought testout videos and they avoided the topic, but they advertise it. MS book is no different, just describes it, does not do the "How". Im thinking of skipping this part and coming back to it later as Ive easily lost a day playing with VMs, BARTPE, Ghost, etc. I dont think I would have this issue if I had real machines (?); XP Client VM comes up with a IP Address not even in the DHCP pool/subnet of my router serving addresses. I additionally feel that this is bigger than what I have played with; research shows using thin clients, bartPE, Server2003, and probably a handful of other utilities, but they are tangents for RIS (?).
Is the jist of RIS to just make a "network client" bootable (somehow, with the many different options, nothing specific) and look for a share on a server or workgroup computer providing the xp installation or image?
I know but have not played much with WSUS and understand you can use that to deploy updates to a network, but is there such a method using S2K3 and XP ALONE to deploy images via a network? Also looking for not just guides, but also something that SHOWS you RIS process in S2K3 + XP environment (there is one on youtube for Server2000).
I cant wait to get over RIS, its killing me. Using Testout videos (just started 2 days ago), I have just taken the test at the end of each chapter and scoring 80%+ first try, but I have been going back to make sure my final score is 100% (it tracks all your scores).
Also have on order the ExamCram2 70-270 study guide and practice questions to continue the tradition as I feel those books pack a punch as short as those books are, and I do feel I know xp better than I feel, minus the ENTERPRISE items, ie RIS, or procedures that dont make sense to do in an environment of < 4 computers. This may also be my shortfall as my lab experience is about 5 or less computers to play with. As I have learned from previous job interviews, the enterprise stuff (and the lack of experience in it) ALWAYS, and immediately, turned a good interview to a bad one.
TOOLS:
VMWare 7, Technet downloads (Server2003, Windows XP), Techexams.net :P
Laptop - Sager NP9280; (OS) 2x80Gb Intel x25 SSD (RAID0); I7-920@2.66Ghz; 6Gb DDR3 RAM; (DATA) 320gb internal Western Digital Scorpio Black (read: VMs); Windows 7 64x
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