RE: Deployment/Imaging Suggestions Needed

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

=?Utf-8?B?QW5kcmV3IEUu?= <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:0A553A06-488A-48B1-947D-C84B0C9195C4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I simply dont get why these mvp ALWAYS refer everything out of
microsofts web site.....Youre best solution(s),would be
at:http://www.microsoft.com/msdn or
at:http://www.microsoft.com/technet If youre doing all this with
windows xp,seems you'd have far more controll with windows server
software,its ability is almost endless with a pc

Simple: Microsoft covers how something should work and then there are the
"in the trenches" guides how to really get it to work. Microsoft
(specifically Michael Niehaus) does frown on my guide on universal
images, because I force a HAL across all hardware platforms. Guess what?
Works perfectly fine! Did it on ~700 PCs at my last company with Windows
2000 and countless Windows XP machines at the company I'm at now.

There isn't a Microsoft solution for universal images unless you go with
Windows Vista. I'll be damned if I have to maintain 8 images if I can
just getting away with just maintaining one, even if it is not sanctioned
by Microsoft.

If Microsoft solutions are so good, please explain why they bought out
Softricity, Winternals, DesktopStandard, and AssetMetrix and turned it
into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.

Adam
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