Dan Sloan, Jesse Thomas & Gretchen Maxam, members of Hamilton's Desktop Integration Services Team in ITS, presented the imaging system they use to manage the installed software and keep Windows XP up to date in the ITS public labs and technology enhanced classrooms to a group of peers at a Northeast Regional Computing Program (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 (AD), 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.
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