SWEET, Im a genius

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I just figured out how to only have 1 image for all the 1,000+ PCs in our company, regardless of the HAL used. (Cause I just wrote a VB script to detect and swap in the right HAL after sysprep completes.)

We were gonna buy a program to do it that would have cost us a lot of money. Will I get a raise out of it? NOPE

/blog
 
Pandora said:
At one time companies did actually give raises n'stuff for crap like that right? That just seems like the thing to do in that kinda situation. Yet I've never heard of a company that actually did it. :wtf:
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Stop living in the 1980s where people were supposedly rewarded for working hard. Then inevitably blew their raise on crack and "escorts". :rolleyes:
 
SpangeMonkee said:
any code monkey could've writin that shit.
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with altiris that we use, it gets pretty complex
detects the model, hardware, and installs all drivers and apps appropriately...say it has a dvd...win dvd will be installed
if it's a laptop, our dialup/wireless software gets pushed and vpn...you name the configuration, the image will be spot on

the only PITA is that every model you support with the image obviously has to have it's driver/app bundle added to the imaging process

being able to image a system in ~15-20 mins is pretty invaluable though

if I had stayed deeper into hardware at work I had planned a big push to use only nforce based systems because with the unified driver architecture, a monkey could churn out rebuilds and it would have greatly simplified the above too
 
fly said:
explain please
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Dell has a feature called X-image. Basically it's the standard imaging process they use on all their computers. One image, every machine they make. It detects the model of computer and then downloads the appropriate drivers for said machine.
 
Coqui said:
Dell has a feature called X-image. Basically it's the standard imaging process they use on all their computers. One image, every machine they make. It detects the model of computer and then downloads the appropriate drivers for said machine.
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Is it available free to the public?

edit: Sounds just like Altaris
 
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