Dan Sloan, Jesse Thomas and Gretchen Maxam '98, members of Hamilton's Desktop Integration Services Team, ITS, presented the imaging system they use to deploy software images in the Academic Facilities to a group of peers at a NERCOMP Special Interest Group workshop on February 5. Their presentation, titled "From Inventory to Ctrl-Alt-Delete," illustrated how imaging can be automated almost to the push of a single button.
They highlighted the integration of their FileMaker inventory database and how it leverages information to create custom files that are used by Active Directory, WinPE, Ghost and Sysprep to automatically add the computer properly to AD, download the correct image, name the computer, reset the administrator password, make custom registry edits, and even reinstall the antivirus software.
