Ris and the MIcrosoft Exam

WalterP

Greetings From Australia
Hi Guys/Gals(?)
Can someone clarify or redirect me to some relevant sites.
I need RIS,Sysprep & Unattended installs simplified in terms of which files go with which install
I have several text books- Microsoft Training Kit, MCSE for Dummies, Etc
and have confused myself.
And just how difficult are Microsoft Exams? I have A+, Network+- These were easy. Can I dare to compare?

Have a great Day!!!
Walter

lazyart

To clarify them a bit-

RIS allows you to boot from your NIC, which broadcasts a request that the RIS Server responds to and starts the installation process.

Sysprep involves creating an image that you copy onto the new system (using Ghost on WinImage). Once the image is on the new machine it will boot into a modified setup... this is what you are likely to see on name brand machines when first powered up.

Unattended installs are a bit inbetween... You have a partitioned and formatted disk, boot to a dos prompt and call the installation via command line, using switches to indicate a premade answer file. You use the same program to create Sysprep and unattended answer files from Windows.

Of them all I prefer RIS, but you must have a server running to do it.