Re: Distributing OS images & software packages offline

I have tested the offline DVD with the network completely disconnected
and it works (even though this was not my primary scenario). The whole
process is driven from WinPE.

Note that you also can configure the OSD advertisment for download and
execute (by WMI, not the SMS Admin Console). This will cause OSD to
download the image package to the sms client cache using BITS
technoligy, and then the install starts from there (Check out the
additional ZTI scenarios docs for more info on this).



regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment


On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:56:12 +0200, "Christoph Duesmann"
<christoph.duesmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Johan !

Is this procedure of creating an offline DVD also usable in locations where
NO network exist ?
Just installing form DVD without connecting to the SMS server...

Thanks for answer.

Christoph Duesmann

"Johan Arwidmark" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Apps works fine too as far as I tested...

But, in order to install apps from the DVD you need to write the
OSDPACKAGEPATH value (Set to <DVD-Drive>:\PackageID) to osdenv.ini in
the postinstall phase (or using sysprep cmdlines.txt). This because
the DVD-Drive most likely isnt X:\ anymore (unless set to this during
a cmdlines.txt script)

If you just want the client to connect to the DP and install the apps
as usual you need to update the OSDPACKAGEPATH value with the UNC path
to the image package. Don't forget to update osdenv.ini with
credentials to connect to the DP (the _OSDRESERVED1 values).


Note: Nothing of the above or the article is a supported solution by
Microsoft (not much tweaks to OSD are).

regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment


On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:47:02 +0200, "Christoph Duesmann"
<christoph.duesmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi !

Is there a way to solve the following problem: We have an location with no
network connection to our company network.
In this location, till now all new clients were installed with simple
Ghost
images. Now we want to use SMS OS deployment and software distribution to
do
this job.
Is it possible to create a complete offline DVD with all needed content
(OS
& software) to install the clients ?

Thanks!

Christoph Duesmann




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