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I got pretty good at this type of thing at one of my earliest jobs was as a network admin's assistant at a training place that was similar to today's webdev boo
by forgotmypw 8y ago
I got pretty good at this type of thing at one of my earliest jobs was as a network admin's assistant at a training place that was similar to today's webdev bootcamps, but for stuff like Oracle, VB, and Java.
Before every class began, I would go through the entire classroom of 15-20 workstations and do a clean install of WinNT4 and whatever software packages were necessary for the class.
Imaging was possible with software like Ghost, but it was still pretty clunky, and NT4 required extra work after imaging, so we just did it manually. Typically, by the time I was done a step with the last workstation, the first one was ready for me to click the next Next button.
Thanks for the memories!
- josteink 8y agoWindows NT and newer supported unattended installs of both the OS and other software you wanted installed automatically. Not as fast as imaging, but equivalent of a manual install, just without any manual work. That’s how we handled 100s of machines with an IT dept of just 3-4 techies at the uni I worked for. And we loathed people who came with non-standard HW our custom boot disks didn’t handle (remember that even being a thing?). Things have certainly changed and IMO mostly for the better.